William Poole (Australian politician)

William Thomas Poole (1828 – 7 February 1902) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born in London to farmer Daniel Cluttenbuck Poole and Eliza Quiddington.

He worked as a railway contractor from a young age and in 1851 was shipwrecked, penniless, in South Australia.

[1] He worked on New South Wales railways and settled in Sydney.

He worked as a district surveyor and also owned a sugar mill at Kempsey.