Thomas Brimage
BRIMAGE, Thomas Frederick Outridge, JP MLC (1866-1915)
Thomas Brimage was born in Ratcliff, Stepney, London on July 23, 1866, the eldest son of Captain Thomas Brimage and his wife Emma Miller Brimage, nee Atkinson. At the age of nine years he came to South Australia with his parents. His father later became Harbourmaster at Port Pirie. Thomas junior served an apprenticeship with the Islington Workshops of the South Australian Railways which he left as a draughtsman in 1894 to work at Bayley’s Mine in Coolgardie. In the same year he established a consulting engineering business in Coolgardie. In 1896 he sold the 228 acre Brimage Mine, that he had pegged out two miles south of Boulder, for £8,000.
He represented overseas interests in developing gold mines in his role as Director of the Kalgoorlie Prospecting and Gold Mining Company. He was also General Manager of the Hannan’s Great Northern Mine. In 1895 he set up as a land agent and stockbroker in Kalgoorlie and extended the business to Perth in 1900. He was the principal of T F Brimage and Company, a carting contractor. He was also the Vice president of the Mine Managers Association of Western Australia.
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Brimage was elected Mayor of the Kalgoorlie in 1899, a Member of the WA Legislative Council for the South Province (1900 1906), and for the North East Province (1906-1912).
Brimage married Marie Louise Reynolds in Perth on April 21, 1896, and they had two sons and two daughters. He died at the Hordern Hotel, Narrogin on May 25, 1915 and was survived by his wife and all of their children.
References:
Parliament of Western Australia, Members Biographical Register;
Express and Telegraph, 15.5.1896, p2;
Kalgoorlie Miner, 26.5.1915, p6.
