Background
Learmonth was the son of Thomas Learmonth, a well-known settler in Tasmania, and was born in 1818.
Learmonth was the son of Thomas Learmonth, a well-known settler in Tasmania, and was born in 1818.
In the following year the two brothers and some friends explored the course of the Loddon, and reached a prominent peak, which they afterwards called Ercildoune, from an old keep on the Scottish border associated with their ancestral history. Here the brothers established a second station. After many years of prosperity the Messrs.
Learmonth disposed of their Buninyong property, and subsequently sold the famous Ercildoune estate to Sir Samuel Wilson.
Mr. Learmonth, later lived at Park Hall, Polmont, North.B., and was a J. P. for Stirlingshire, married, firstly, in 1857, Louisa, daughter of Major-General Sir Thomas Valiant, who died in 1878. And, secondly, in 1879, Jane Florence Harriett, daughter of Lestock Reid, of the Bombay Civil Service.
He died in 1903.
Mr. Learmonth was for some time a member of the Upper House in Victoria, and finally left for England in 1868.