Frederick Thomas Derham (8 January 1844 – 12 March 1922) was an Australian politician and businessman.
[1] Born in Bristol, he grew up in Somerset to auctioneer Thomas Plumley Derham and Sarah Ann Watts, he arrived in Melbourne in 1856 and entered the business world.
Derham also invested in sugar plantations in which fruit canneries and preserving works were developed near Cairns, Queensland in the 1870s.
[1] Derham began his political career as the Mayor of Sandridge Municipal Council in the early 1880s.
In 1883 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Sandridge, shifting to Port Melbourne in 1889; he served as Postmaster-General from 1886 to 1890.