Thomas Robertson (1830 – 1 October 1891) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born at

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in Berkshire to Thomas Robertson, who taught mathematics at

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, and Isabella Stevenson. He migrated to

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, becoming a squatter in the Clarence River area. He subsequently qualified as a solicitor and in 1863 settled at

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, where he was a long time alderman of the Municipality of Deniliquin and twice elected Mayor of Deniliquin. On 26 February 1857 he married Jane Susannah Cunningham, with whom he had twelve children. In 1873 he was elected to the

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for Hume, but he was defeated in 1874. Robertson died at

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in 1891 (aged 61).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Robertson, Thomas 1830 births 1891 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians