Robert Boyd (Australian politician)

Robert Boyd
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Burnett
In office 13 October 1928 – 11 Jun 1932
Preceded by	Bernard Corser
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Personal details
Born	Robert Livingstone Boyd 11 December 1885 'Lara' Logan River, Queensland, Australia
Died	30 May 1951 (aged 65) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Resting place	Gayndah Cemetery
Political party	Country and Progressive National Party
Spouse(s)	Dorothy Thynne (m.1912 d.1936), Marjorie Eliott (m.1938)
Occupation	Dairy farmer, Company director
Religion	Church of England

Robert Livingstone Boyd (11 December 1885 - 30 May 1951) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.^[1]

Biography

Boyd was born at "Lara", on the Logan River in Queensland, the son of Robert Boyd Snr. and his wife May (née McDonald). He was educated at St Mark's School and then Brisbane Grammar School 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.^[1]

On the 3rd June 1912 he married Dorothy Thynne and together had three sons and two daughters.^[1] Dorothy died in 1936^[2] and two years later Boyd married Marjorie Eliott.^[1] He died in May 1951 in Brisbane and his body was taken to Gayndah where his funeral proceeded from St Matthew's Church of England to the Gayndah Cemetery.^[3]

Public career

Following the resignation of Bernard Corser in 1928, Boyd, a member of the Country and Progressive National Party, won the resulting by-election for the seat of Burnett in the Queensland Legislative Assembly.^[4] He held the seat until the 1932 Queensland state election^[1] when Burnett was abolished and he retired from politics.

References

1. "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
2. Family history research — Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
3. "Family Notices". The Courier-mail (4527). Queensland, Australia. 1 June 1951. p. 12. Retrieved 11 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "POLLING SUMMARY.". The Brisbane Courier (22,243). Queensland, Australia. 13 May 1929. p. 17. Retrieved 11 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.