Thomas Ramsden Ashworth was an Australian politician.

Born in Richmond

Richmond, Victoria

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 to medical practitioner Thomas Ramsden Ashworth and Mary Jane Leeson, his family moved to Bombala

Bombala, New South Wales

Bombala is a town in the Monaro region of south-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in Bombala Council. It is located approximately south of the state capital, Sydney, and south of the town of Cooma. The name derives from an Aboriginal word meaning "Meeting of the waters". The town lies on the...

 in New South Wales

New South Wales

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 when he was a child but returned to Melbourne

Melbourne

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 after his father's death in 1876. He spent four years at sea before taking various jobs as a carpenter, builder, architect and estate agent. In 1888 he married Emily Ashweek; later, in 1894, he would marry Marguerite Adele Young. He was President of the Victorian Free Trade Association from 1898 to 1902 and a South Melbourne

City of South Melbourne

The City of South Melbourne was a Local Government Area located about south of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia, on the south bank of the Yarra River...

 City Councillor from 1895 to 1898. From 1902 to 1904 he was the member for Ovens in the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Victorian Legislative Assembly

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. Ashworth died in 1935 in Fitzroy

Fitzroy, Victoria

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