Thomas Mate

Thomas Hodges Mate (5 April 1810 – 22 July 1894) was an English-born Australian politician.

He migrated to Sydney in 1833 and acquired a sheep and cattle farm on Tarcutta Creek.

On 8 February 1836 he married Maria Bardwell, with whom he had seven children; a second marriage in 1882 to Florence Brown would produce a further daughter.

In 1850 he settled in Albury, where he established a general store and later served as mayor and alderman.

In 1860 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Hume, serving until his retirement in 1869.