Thomas Wilde Boothby (9 December 1839 – 19 June 1885),[1] generally known by his full name, or as "T. Wilde Boothby", was a politician in the British colony of South Australia.
He and his brother James Henry Boothby took up a lease on a property on the Coorong which they named Tintinara.
[3] He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Victoria from June 1873 to February 1875.
[5] He is perhaps best remembered as father of Guy Boothby (1867–1907) private secretary to Adelaide mayor Lewis Cohen, traveller and author with a significant career in England, and of Ben Boothby (1870– ), artist and companion on Guy's journeys, and also a writer of popular fiction,[6] who completed several of his brother's unfinished stories,[7] and illustrated others.
Thomas Wilde Boothby married Mary Agnes Hodding (1843 – 16 July 1907) on 10 March 1864.