title: Thomas Nimmo
text: # Thomas Nimmo
  
  Thomas Nimmo (27 July 1879 – 6 February 1943) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Nimmo was born at Ipswich, Queensland, the son of Andrew Nimmo and his wife Agnes (née Reilly). He was educated at the Ipswich State School and on leaving he worked as a shop assistant at Cribb and Foote in Ipswich before taking up business interests including as a director of the Queensland Woolen Mills and the Queensland Deposit Bank, and owning his own retail drapery business at North Ipswich.
  
  On 25 November 1903 he married Margaret Wright (died 1958) in Brisbane and together had one son and three daughters. Thomas Nimmo died on 6 February 1943 and was cremated at Mt Thompson Crematorium.
  
  ## Public life
  
  Nimmo, a member of the CPNP, won the seat of Oxley in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1929. He held it until he died in 1943.
  
  