Thomas Rutledge
Pastoralist and politician, member for Queanbeyan in New South Wales, Australia
About Thomas Rutledge
Lived 1817 – 1904 (aged 86–87). Thomas Rutledge was an Australian politician, pastoralist, justice of the peace, magistrate and racehorse owner and breeder.
Thomas Rutledge (12 March 1819 – 23 November 1904) was an Irish-born politician and pastoralist in New South Wales, Australia.
He was born at Ballynagdine in County Cavan to landowner James Rutledge and Martha Foster.
He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in the 1881 by-election, but retired at the general election in 1882 for health reasons and temporarily went to England in an attempt to recover.
Rutledge was ill for some years prior to his death. Rutledge died at Carwoola Homestead in 1904 (aged 86) from what was attributed as "senile decay" and was buried in the graveyard of St. Thomas' Church of England at Carwoola.
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pastoralist and politician, member for Queanbeyan in New South Wales, Australia (1819–1904)
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Thomas Rutledge was born in 1817 in County Cavan.
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Thomas Rutledge died on 23 November 1904 in Queanbeyan.
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Thomas Rutledge was a politician, pastoralist, justice of the peace, magistrate and racehorse owner and breeder.
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Thomas Rutledge was Australian.
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