Background
The son of John Peyton Junior. and Eleanor Mahoney, he was born on Exploits Burnt Island.
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Thomas Peyton
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Career
He represented Twillingate in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1889 to 1893 as a Liberal. Peyton married Ann Pearce of Twillingate. He managed the family salmon fishery on the Exploits River.
He was a justice of the peace and also served as a deputy land surveyor on the geological survey of Newfoundland by Alexander Murray.
Peyton was briefly magistrate at Pilley"s Island and served as fishery warden on rivers on Notre Dame Bay. He is credited with the discover of copper deposits at Green Bay in 1875.
He died at Twillingate in 1912.
