James Lorimer (Australian politician)
Sir James Lorimer KCMG was an Australian politician and businessman. He was the first chairman of the Melbourne Harbour Trust and a Member of the Legislative Council in the Victorian parliament from 1879 to 1889.
Lorimer was born onMarch 1831 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, to merchant Thomas Lorimer and Catherine, ne Walkin. He was educated at Haddon Hall Academy, and articled to a Liverpool softgoods firm which traded with Africa and America. He travelled to Victoria in 1853 on health advice and chose to stay. He married Eliza Kenworthy, the daughter of the United States consul in Sydney, onMarch 1858, with whom he raised eleven children, ten of whom survived him.
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