Major Sir Thomas Karran Maltby was a politician in Victoria, Australia.
21 Facts About Thomas Maltby
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Thomas Maltby's father died in 1893, and his mother remarried the following year.
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Thomas Maltby attended the Bendigo School of Mines at night, studying to receive an engineer's certificate, while working as a battery boy and later trucker in the Bendigo gold mines.
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Around 1909, Thomas Maltby moved to Melbourne where he worked as a labourer on the Melbourne Tramways.
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Thomas Maltby later joined the sugar refinery CSR as an engine driver and clerk.
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Already an officer of the citizens' militia, Thomas Maltby was appointed as a lieutenant in the First Australian Imperial Force on 16 May 1915.
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Thomas Maltby embarked for Egypt in September that year, and by March 1916 was fighting on the Western Front with the Australian 5th Battalion.
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Thomas Maltby was wounded twice during the war, once when a bolt from an exploding rifle entered his arm in April 1917.
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Thomas Maltby was mentioned in dispatches before returning to Australia in 1919.
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Five years later, Thomas Maltby was elected to the legislative assembly when he won the state by-election for the seat of Barwon, following the death of the Nationalist member Edward Morley.
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In 1941, Thomas Maltby advocated for a UAP conference with the United Australia Organisation to discuss reform and reorganisation of the UAO.
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Thomas Maltby did not resign from the UAP, but disassociated himself from his party colleagues and sat on the Opposition crossbenches for several months before returning.
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In September 1945, Thomas Maltby was one of five Liberal Party members to cross the floor and vote with the Labor Party and the Independents to defeat an appropriation bill.
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Thomas Maltby was appointed Deputy Premier, Chief Secretary and Minister for Electrical Undertakings in the short-lived ministry, which lasted from 2 October to 21 November 1945.
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Thomas Maltby was expelled from the Liberal Party for his defection, but was re-admitted to the party in 1946.
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On 2 December 1947, Thomas Maltby achieved what he called "a boyhood ambition" when he was elected Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
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Thomas Maltby was knighted in the King's Birthday Honours on 9 June 1949 for his work as Speaker.
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Hollway agreed, and Thomas Maltby was one of the front runners to replace Warner in the ensuing reshuffle, provided he was not renominated as Speaker.
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Thomas Maltby was made Minister of Housing but was replaced the next day by Horace Petty.
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In 1959, Thomas Maltby toured public buildings and studied road building and construction in the United States and Britain.
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Thomas Maltby reported on his findings in the Report on his mission abroad, published in Melbourne in the same year.