Frederick Richard Vaughan
Timbury
Male
Australia
1885-07-12
Gladstone, Queensland, Australia
1945-04-14
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
From The Western Star and Roma Advertiser (Queensland), 20 April 1945:
Death of Mayor of Roma – Mr Frederick R.V. Timbury – Prominent Personality in West
Although not unexpected, the report of the death in Sydney early last Saturday morning of Mr Frederick R.V. Timbury, Mayor of Roma, was received with expressions of great regret by a large section of the community in the Maranoa district, a centre where Mr Timbury had been a prominent personality over a period of more than 40 years. Mr Timbury’s activities covered [illegible] including his legal profession, sporting activities and public affairs.
After serving his articles, he became a member of the legal firm, Mayne and Timbury, and after Mr Mayne's retirement, Mr Taylor, who had also been articled with them, became a principal in the firm, now Timbury and Taylor.
Mr Timbury had served as alderman on Roma Town Council for two terms, and later had been elected Mayor unopposed for two terms, and was in the second term in that office at the time of his death. Recently the council had adopted a programme, for which he was mainly, responsible, for post-war work involving an expenditure of about £860,000.
A few weeks ago, while on a business and holiday trip to Brisbane he had to receive medical attention for blood poisoning. Although not by any means well, he made a special trip to Sydney to participate in a broadcast debate on the subject of Dr Bradfield’s scheme for harnessing the northern rivers to provide water for central Australia.
Local residents who listened in to the debate noted that Mr Timbury’s case was not presented in his characteristic vigorous manner. Immediately afterwards he suffered a relapse and had to be admitted to hospital, where little hope was given for his recovery from the outset, and he passed away last Saturday morning. He is survived by his widow and one daughter, Miss Ruth Timbury, who
was present at his bedside, also his mother and two sisters.
He was the only son of the late Mr Timbury and Mrs Timbury, and born at Gladstone on 12th July, 1885, and was educated at Charters Towers and Townsville Grammar School, and came to Roma in 1903, where he was articled to Mr W.O. Mayne, his family having arrived here some time previously. Prior to leaving the North, he had worked in mines.
He continued his law studies in Brisbane in 1901, and in that year played rugby union football with Past Grammars team, and from that stage went on to represent Queensland and Australia. He also represented Queensland in cricket and tennis. He took an active part in all forms of sport in Roma, and was a noted all-round athlete.
He did not confine his activities to sport, but was prominent in all movements for the development of town and district, and when the oil-boring was at its height in the Roma district was a director of Roma Oil Corporation which operated locally from 1927 to 1933. He had a trip to America for the company, and while there purchased a gas control and gas absorption plant, which was installed at Roma. He also visited many of the Californian oil fields.
With a wide practical knowledge of the country to the north of Roma, he was of great material assistance in getting the Carnarvon Highway to Injune and Springsure, and had been always interested in the development of the Carnarvons and the Maranoa district natural resources. He was actively engaged in preparing schemes for post-war planning, local decentralisation and rural development, including erection of abattoirs, dehydration, wool floors and wool selling centre at Roma.
Recently he had published a book in The Battle for Australia series which supported the Dr Bradfield and Idriess plan for watering inland Australia as a means of preserving that|part of Australia from further devastation by droughts. In between times he was keenly interested in big game fishing, and while, on one of these expeditions caught the first striped marlin in Queensland waters under game fishing conditions. A few weeks later Mr Andy Carrodoua (Brisbane) landed the first black marlin.
1913 - 1923
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Round 2
Leslie Arthur Todd 1 *
Frederick Richard Vaughan Timbury
5-7
6-3
6-4
6-4
Round 2
Henry Macauley Turner 1 *
Frederick Richard Vaughan Timbury
6-1
6-3
6-3
Round 1
Frederick Richard Vaughan Timbury 1 *
bye
Round 2
G. Moorhead 1 *
Frederick Richard Vaughan Timbury
3-6
7-5
6-4
6-2
Round 2
Lindsay Todd 1 *
Frederick Richard Vaughan Timbury
6-3
6-1
2-6
6-1
Final
Bert Saint John 1 *
Frederick Richard Vaughan Timbury
6-2
6-3
Round 1
G. Steindl 1 *
Frederick Richard Vaughan Timbury
10-8
6-4
6-2