John Connell Laycock (2 December 1818 – 30 November 1897) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to storekeeper and pastoralist Thomas Laycock and Margaret Connell. He owned land at Yamba. On 1 February 1843 he married Mary Jane Simpson, with whom he had four children. In 1859 he was elected to the

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for Central Cumberland. He transferred to

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in 1864, but resigned in 1866. Laycock died at

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in 1897.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Laycock, John (Australian politician) 1818 births 1897 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians