James Tolmie (Australian politician)

James Tolmie was a member of the Parliament of Queensland, Newspaper proprietor, and Soldier.

James Tolmie was born on the ship Registan in Moreton Bay, just outside Brisbane, Queensland onJuly 1862, to Roderick Tolmie and his wife Helen , who were coming from Scotland to Queensland. The eldest of a family of nine children, he was educated at the South State School, Toowoomba, and began as a pupil teacher in 1877. In 1894 he became editor, with a halfshare interest, of the Darling Downs Gazette, a position he held until that papers amalgamation with the Toowoomba Chronicle in 1922. He was a notable athlete in his younger days, being particularly proficient as footballer and cricketer.

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