Thomas Power (Australian politician)
Thomas Herbert Power was an auctioneer, pastoral agent and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council.
Power was born in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland; christened 29 July 1802. His parents were David Power, a merchant, and Bridget, née Higgins. Power emigrated to the Port Phillip District in 1839 via Launceston, Tasmania. He was an auctioneer Melbourne from 1839 to 1843 and again in 1846; he was a squatter in Boroondara in the early 1840s.
Power was elected to the Southern Province of the new Legislative Council in November 1856, a seat he held until 1 September 1864.
Power was a director of the National Bank 1860–1866 and a commissioner of the Savings Bank of Victoria. He died in Hawthorn, Victoria on 28 November 1873. He was married to Mary Sophia Blurton, there was at least one child, a son Robert.
