Thomas Nimmo


Thomas Nimmo was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography

Nimmo was born at Ipswich, Queensland, the son of Andrew Nimmo and his wife Agnes. He was educated at the Ipswich State School and on leaving he worked as a shop assistant at Cribb and Foote in Ipswich before taking up business interests including as a director of the Queensland Woolen Mills and the Queensland Deposit Bank, and owning his own retail drapery business at North Ipswich.
On 25 November 1903 he married Margaret Wright in Brisbane and together had one son and three daughters. Thomas Nimmo died on 6 February 1943 and was cremated at Mt Thompson Crematorium.

Public life

Nimmo, a member of the CPNP, won the seat of Oxley in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1929. He held it until he died in 1943.