Thomas Hellyer

Thomas Henry Hellyer (1840 – 5 April 1889) was an Australian politician and solicitor.

He was born in 1840 at Bathurst to solicitor William Hellyer,[1] and Margaret née Gray.

On 25 April 1862, he married Rose Anne Parfitt,[2] with whom he had twelve children.

He stood for Bathurst at the election on Saturday 2 December, but was narrowly defeated with a margin of 16 votes (1.6 %),[7] but was elected unopposed for the neighbouring district of West Macquarie the following week.

Hellyer had a cancer removed, however it returned in December 1888,[9] and he died at Liverpool in 1889 (aged 49).