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About James Thompson Wilshire
- James Thompson Wilshire (20 April 1837 – 28 April 1909) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to James Robert Wilshire and Elizabeth Thompson, a member of a prominent and well-connected colonial family.
- He was educated at Peter Steel's School in Pitt Street and Henry Brown's City Grammar School before studying at the University of Sydney.
- He was a clerk and land agent at Scone from 1862.
- In 1883 he returned to Sydney, being now wealthy enough to retire.
- He was an alderman and mayor of Burwood, and was involved with a number of societies, notably those connected with sanitary reform.
- In 1889 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as one of the four Free Trade members for Canterbury, but he did not contest the 1891 election.
- Wilshire moved from Burwood to Neutral Bay, New South Wales in around 1894 (as did his half-brother Henry Austin Wilshire), and lived there until his death in 1909, leaving to his widow a substantial portfolio of local properties.
- He had no children.
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