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' Company director |
Robert Livingstone Boyd (11 December 1885 – 30 May 1951) was a member of the
Biography
Boyd was born at "Lara", on the
On 3 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
- ^ a b c d e "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
- ^ Family history research — Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
- The Courier-mail. No. 4527. Queensland, Australia. 1 June 1951. p. 12. Retrieved 11 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- The Brisbane Courier. No. 22, 243. Queensland, Australia. 13 May 1929. p. 17. Retrieved 11 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.