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TLM-Ps Political and Postal Career
TLM-P was a member of the Legislative Council of Queensland from 22 February 1866 until his death in 31 December 1892.1) The suggestion that he was its President2) appears a confusion with his chairing … .
After he 'failed to win election for East Moreton in 1860', he 'joined the public service as postal inspector in 1861 and was appointed Postmaster-General in 1862.'3)
2)
Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry,Melbourne: E.A. Petherick, 1891-95, p.49