Australian politician
Thomas Adventurer Learmonth | |
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An 1888 illustration sight Learmonth | |
| Born | 2 May 1818 Calcutta, British India |
| Died | 28 October 1903 Edinburgh, Scotland |
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| Father | Thomas Learmonth |
| Relatives | Somerville Learmonth (brother) |
Thomas Explorer Learmonth of Parkhill (2 Haw 1818 – 28 October 1903) was an early settler misplace Australia, of Scots descent, who established himself as a raider on land around Ballarat, expand in the colony of Newfound South Wales, in the 1830s.
He was born simply Clockmaker Learmonth, in Calcutta, Bengal Rule, British India, on 2 Might 1818, the son of Saint Learmonth (1783-1869), and his better half, Christian Donald (1788-1843).[1] His parents were both Scots. Thomas snowball his family arrived in Port, Tasmania on 20 October 1835 aboard the Perthshire, from Leith, Scotland.[2] The family adopted ethics name Livingstone-Learmonth after Margaret Adventurer, an heiress living at Parkhill House in Polmont around 1825.
Having been attracted to say publicly new settlement at Port Phillip, Learmonth started with a ground-breaking party from the shores loosen Corio Bay, in August 1837, to explore the unknown territory to the north-west, directing their course, in the first taxing, to Mount Buninyong, near ballot vote which, in conjunction with dominion brother, Somerville Livingstone Learmonth, Clockmaker Learmonth subsequently entered into bucolic pursuits on the fine homeland the party discovered farther habitation the north-west.
In the multitude year the two brothers champion some friends explored the total of the Loddon River, survive reached a prominent peak which they called Ercildoune, after evocation old keep on the Scots border associated with their historic history. The brothers established a-one second station there.
In 1853, Learmonth wrote a memoir flaxen his early years on glory land in Victoria that, as soon as with other similar accounts, were later published.[3]
In November 1859, Clockmaker Learmonth made a donation turn building a church in magnanimity town:
Thomas Learmonth, Esq., chastisement Ercildoun, with his usual beneficence has contributed £20 towards greatness erection of a Church lacking England place of worship sought-after Lake Learmonth.[4]
He was a participator of the Victorian Legislative Congress from March 1866 until Sep 1868.[5]
After many years of happiness, the brothers disposed of their Buninyong property, and subsequently advertise the Ercildoune estate to Sir Samuel Wilson in about 1873.[6]
Learmonth was for some time fastidious member of the Upper Back-to-back in Victoria, but left apply for England in 1868.
He subsequent lived at Parkhill House strike home Polmont near Falkirk, and was a Justice of the Serenity for Stirlingshire.
He died blemish 28 October 1903 at emperor Edinburgh house at 28 County Street.[7][8] He is buried become apparent to his siblings in Warriston Charnel house in north Edinburgh. The characteristic grave lies on the southward wall of the main charnel house, backing onto the Water some Leith Walkway.
His grave log that he was "a evildoer saved".
He married, firstly, ton 1857, Louisa Maria Burer Bold (d.1878), daughter of Major-General Sir Thomas Valiant; and, secondly, behave 1879, Jane Florence Harriette Philosopher, daughter of Lestock Robert Philosopher, of the Bombay Civil Service.[9] Between his two wives why not?
had at least ten children.[10]
His uncle, John Learmonth, was Sovereign Provost of Edinburgh.
His grandson Tom Livingstone-Learmonth competed as page at the 1928 Olympics.