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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-05-25 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-11-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003586b.htm person Guest Thomas Bibby AACR2 15 November 1830 3 April 1908 Place of Birth Chester, Cheshire, England Place of Death Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia Manufacturer Thomas Bibby Guest was a biscuit manufacturer who ran the Melbourne firm T. B. Guest and Company. In 1856 he received Victorian Industrial Society award for his biscuits which were received favourably at the London Exhibition of 1873. Guest's pattern for a machine for making Currant Luncheons was taken up by English biscuit machine manufacturers.

Born Chester, England, 15 November 1830. Died Melbourne, 3 April 1908. Arrived Sydney in Salacia 1852; to Melbourne; formed Barnes, Guest & Co., biscuit manufacturers (Became T.B. Guest & Co. 1858).

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 Guest, Thomas Bibby (1830-1908)

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 'Guest, Thomas Bibby', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Guest, Thomas Bibby Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Guest, Thomas Bibby (1830-1908), biscuit manufacturer Hone, J. Ann Guest, Thomas Bibby (1830-1908), biscuit manufacturer Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2005 Australian dictionary of biography: supplement 1580 - 1980, with a name index to the Australian dictionary of biography to 1980 Christopher Cunneen 159 Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Online Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2000 Book: A Settlement Amply Supplied: Food Technology in Nineteenth Century Australia Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry A Settlement Amply Supplied: Food Technology in Nineteenth Century Australia Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1980