Thomas Laidlaw (politician)
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Thomas Laidlaw (politician)
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Thomas Laidlaw was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was born at Melrose in Roxburghshire to merchant Alexander Laidlaw and Helen Cochrane. A banker, he migrated to New South Wales in 1839 and settled at Yass, where he became a partner in a general store. In 1841 he married Catherine Galvin, however she died the following year and they had no children. In 1859 he was elected unopposed to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Yass Plains, but immediately resigned as he realised his
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Politician, shopkeeper and pastoralist in New South Wales, Australia
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