Robert Livingstone Boyd (11 December 1885 – 30 May 1951) was a member of the

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Biography

Boyd was born at "Lara", on the

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, the son of Robert Boyd Snr. and his wife May (née McDonald). He was educated at St Mark's School and then

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before working as a jackeroo at Bromelton. He purchased Conondale Station and Wetheron Homestead in 1912 to start large-scale dairy farming. He was also a director of the Gayndah Butter Company and the Byrnestown Cheese Factory. On 3 June 1912 he married Dorothy Thynne and together had three sons and two daughters. Dorothy died in 1936Family history research
— Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 11 May 2016. and two years later Boyd married Marjorie Eliott. He died in May 1951 in

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and his body was taken to

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where his funeral proceeded from St Matthew's Church of England to the Gayndah Cemetery.

Public career

Following the resignation of Bernard Corser in 1928, Boyd, a member of the

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, won the resulting

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for the seat of Burnett in the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He held the seat until the

1932 Queensland state election Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 11 June 1932 to elect the 62 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The election was the first electoral test of the Country and Progressive National Party government led by A ...

when Burnett was abolished and he retired from politics.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boyd, Robert Livingstone Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1885 births 1951 deaths 20th-century Australian politicians