LIVINGSTON, THOMAS (1851-1922), politician and manufacturer, was born on 12 June
1851 at Bathurst, New South Wales, son of John Livingston, shepherd, and his wife
Margaret, née Brock. The family moved to Ballarat, Victoria, when Thomas was 5. In
1869 he undertook a Board of Education teacher-training course and taught at
schools in the Ballarat area in 1870-78 and at Numurkah from 1879. His inspectors
described him as energetic and intelligent. On 11 April 1882 at Majorca he
married, with Wesleyan forms, a fellow teacher Genefor Deborah Perry.
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