Background
He was born at Melrose in Roxburghshire to merchant Alexander Laidlaw and Helen Cochrane.
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Thomas Laidlaw
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A banker, he migrated to Sydney in 1839 and settled at Yass, where he opened a general store. In 1859 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Yass Plains, but he did not re-contest in 1860. In 1866 he sold his store, which had now expanded to include brewery and post office, and became a pastoralist.
Laidlaw died at Yass in 1876.
