The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Unmack, Hon. Theodore

by Philip Mennell

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Unmack, Hon. Theodore, M.L.A., Postmaster-General of Queensland, was born at Hamburg in 1835. He arrived in Victoria in 1853, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. He went to Queensland in 1860, and commenced business in Brisbane. He was returned to the Assembly for Toowong at the general election in May 1888. He is a prominent Freemason, and holds the position of Provincial Grand Master (T.C.). On the accession to power of Sir Samuel Griffith in August 1890, Mr. Unmack became Postmaster-General.