Woore, Thomas (1804-1878)

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defence forces personnel (British); grazier (unspecified); railways leader; surveyor; Drawing; Sculpture; modeller; naval officer; pastoralist; magistrate; Surveyor and Pastoralist
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WOORE, THOMAS (1804-1878), naval officer, surveyor and pastoralist, was born on 29 January 1804 at Londonderry, Ireland, eldest son of Thomas Woore, army captain, and his wife Catherine Anne, née Darcus. Educated at Foyle College, Londonderry, he disappointed family hopes of an army career for him by joining the navy as a midshipman in December 1819. He served on ships suppressing smuggling along the south coast of England until April 1823 when, using family connexions, he transferred to the Thetis. He resigned his commission in February 1826 to settle his father's estate in Ireland but rejoined later that year. Posted to the Alligator, he was engaged in hydrographic experiments off the east coast of North America. He acquired skill as a surveyor and in 1828 was offered a post in the hydrography section of the Admiralty; he took command of The Woodlark.

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Thomas Woore was a sketcher, modeller, naval officer, surveyor and pastoralist. He visited Sydney for the first time in 1829. Woore's sketches of houses are of particular interest to architectural historians.

sketcher, modeller, naval officer, surveyor and pastoralist, was born on 29 January 1804 in Londonderry, Ireland, eldest son of Thomas Woore, an army captain, and Catherine Anne, née Darcus. Educated at Foyle College, Londonderry, he entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman in December 1819 and served on ships along the English coast. After gaining skill as a surveyor, he was offered a post in the hydrography section of the Admiralty. Joining the Zebra in 1829, Woore made his first ...

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  • fl. 1829-1877

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Thomas Woore was a member of the Roay l Navy in England from 1819 to 1934. Part of duties included hydrographic work which eventually brought him to Sydney. In 1939 he bought a station, Pomeroy, near Goulburn in New South Wales and became a leading pastoralist. Woore undertook survey work for the proposed railway at his own expense, for which he received no compensation. In 1867-69 he was a member of the commission on the water-supply of Sydney and its suburbs and in his minority report vainly suggested building a dam at Warragamba.

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  1. Supply of water from the Warragamba River : sewerage of Sydney, irrigation of Cumberland, relief of the Hawkesbury, suburban railway, and defence of the North Shore of Botany Bay, combined in one scheme / by Thomas Woore
    Woore, Thomas, 1804-1878
    [ Book : 1876 ]
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  2. Papers
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    [ Unpublished : 1826-1864 ]
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  3. Substance of a lecture on railways : delivered at the Goulburn Mechanics' Institute, on Friday July 6, 1855 / by Thomas Woore
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  4. Remarks on what New South Wales might become by introducing the light of science into it / by Thomas Woore
    Woore, Thomas, 1804-1878
    [ Book : 1876 ]
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  5. The Warragamba water scheme / by Thomas Woore
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  6. Comments on Mr. W. Clark's report on water-supply to Sydney, N.S. Wales / by Thomas Woore
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    [ Book : 1877 ]
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  7. Errors in the Great Western Railroad New South Wales / exposed by Thomas Woore
    Woore, Thomas, 1804-1878
    [ Book : 1876 ]
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  8. Report on the proposed railways in New South Wales / made by Thomas Woore to the Provisional Committee
    Woore, Thomas, 1804-1878
    [ Book : 1848 ]
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  9. Australian railways and the Sydney University Magazine
    Woore, Thomas, 1804-1878
    [ Book : 1800 ]
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  10. Papers
    Woore, Thomas, 1804-1878
    [ Unpublished : 1765-1948 ]
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  1. Just another pioneer : Thomas Woore of Goulburn / by Marjorie Woore
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    [ Book : 1990 ]
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  2. Papers
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    [ Unpublished : 1826-1864 ]
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