Thomas Mitchell Shakespeare (25 July 1873 – 16 September 1938) was an Australian politician.
He was born inPenrith to engineer Thomas Shakespeare and Margaret Brown. He was educated atForbes and became a compositor's apprentice at the age of fourteen. In 1894, he founded theCondobolin Lachlander newspaper. In 1896, he married Anne Forster, with whom he had six children. He ranThe Grafton Argus from 1902 to 1904 and from 1904 to 1928 was secretary of the New South Wales Country Press Association, becoming president from 1928 to 1929. In 1925, he began Federal Capital Press of Australia Ltd, publisher ofThe Canberra Times.[1]
He was initially a member of theLabor Party, but he left over conscription in the1916 Labor split and became aNationalist. From 1923 to 1934, he was a member of theNew South Wales Legislative Council. From 1930 until his death, he was also a member of theAustralian Capital Territory Advisory Council. Shakespeare died inCanberra in 1938.[2]
