Thomas Livingstone Learmonth of Parkhill (2 May 1818 – 28 October 1903) was an early settler of Australia, of Scots descent, who established himself as a squatter on land around Ballarat, then in the colony of New South Wales, in the 1830s.
Thomas and his family arrived in Hobart, Tasmania on 20 October 1835 aboard the Perthshire, from Leith, Scotland.
In the following year the two brothers and some friends explored the course of the Loddon River, and reached a prominent peak which they called Ercildoune, after an old keep on the Scottish border associated with their ancestral history.
[5] After many years of prosperity, the brothers disposed of their Buninyong property, and subsequently sold the Ercildoune estate to Sir Samuel Wilson in about 1873.
The distinctive grave lies on the south wall of the main cemetery, backing onto the Water of Leith Walkway.