John Tyrel

John Tyrel
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Carnarvon
In office 8 January 1876 – 1 October 1883
Preceded by	William Miles
Succeeded by	Justin Foxton
Personal details
Born	John de Poix Tyrel 1840 Worcester, England
Died	15 July 1885 (aged 44 or 45) Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia
Nationality	English Australian
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth Ann Farley (m.1880)
Occupation	Auctioneer
Religion	Church of England

John de Poix Tyrel (1840 - 15 July 1885) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.^[1]

Personal

Tyrel was born in 1840 in Worcester, England, the son of John de Poix Tyrel Snr. and Mary Christina (née Chapman). A member of the Church of England, he had a private education in London and Worcester and arrived in Queensland in 1864 and became the manager of the Redland Bay Sugar Plantation. In 1872 he was an auctioneer and commercial agent in Stanthorpe.

On the 13th November 1880, Tyrel married Elizabeth, the widow of Charles Farley, on 13 November 1880, at Stanthorpe. He died there in July 1885.

Community involvement

He was elected a member of the Royal Colonial Institute in 1880^[2] and a member of the Independent Order of Oddfellows in 1883.^[3]

Politics

Tyrel won the by-election in January 1876 for the electorate of Carnarvon to replace William Miles,^[4] who had resigned in October the previous year. He went on to represent Carnavon until the 1883 Queensland colonial election when he retired from politics.^[1]

References

1. "Tyrel, John de Poix". Queensland Parliament. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
2. "THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE.". Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1907). Sydney, NSW: National Library of Australia. 1 May 1880. p. 42. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
3. Waterson, D. B. (Duncan Bruce) (1972), A biographical register of the Queensland Parliament, 1860-1929, Australian National University Press, ISBN 978-0-7081-0816-1
4. "Telegraphic.". The Brisbane Courier. XXX, (2,695). Queensland, Australia. 10 January 1876. p. 3. Retrieved 20 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.