Thomas Livingston (12 June 1851 – 13 July 1922) was an Australian politician.

Biography

Livingston was born in Bathurst, New South Wales, the son of a shepherd, John Livingston. In 1856 he moved to Victoria and attended state school at Scarsdale. He became a teacher in regional Victoria from 1869 to 1883, when he began working in journalism in

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. On 11 April 1882 he had married fellow schoolteacher Genefor Deborah Perry, with whom he had a daughter. He was part-owner of the '' Numurkah Standard'' and proprietor of the ''

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Express'', before becoming editor and part-owner of the ''Farmer's Gazette'' in 1887. He also founded a butter company in 1888, which eventually expanded to include cheese, poultry, rabbits and fruit. In 1900 he retired from business to take up farming on the Agnes River. In 1902 Livingston was elected to the

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for Gippsland South. He voted against the

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government in 1908, and was Liberal whip from 1909 to 1912. From 1913 to 1914 he was a minister without portfolio, and he then held the portfolios of Public Instruction from 1914 to 1915 and Mines and Forests from 1915 to 1917. A key member of the Country Liberals faction in the Nationalist Party, he was again a minister without portfolio from February to June 1921. Livingston died in Middle Park in 1922.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Livingston, Thomas 1851 births 1922 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Vice-Presidents of the Board of Land and Works Ministers for Forests (Victoria) Ministers of Mines (Victoria)