{{Short description|Australian politician (1812–1870)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Robert Quayle Kermode | image = RobertKermode1840.jpeg | office = Member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Longford | term_start = 1856 | term_end = 1857 | birth_date = 1812 | death_date = 4 May 1870 (aged 58) | birth_place = Isle of Man, United Kingdom | resting_place = Ross, Tasmania | death_place = Ross, Tasmania (presumed) | predecessor = Alexander Clerke | successor = William Weston | caption = Robert Kermode by Henry Mundy (portraitist), 1840 }}
'''Robert Quayle Kermode''' (1812 – 4 May 1870) was a British politician. He was a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council and the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the 1850s and 1860s.<ref name=adb> {{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=E. J. |last=Cameron |title=Kermode, Robert Quayle (1812–1870) |id2=kermode-robert-quayle-2832 |accessdate=3 January 2014}}</ref> In 1852 Godfrey Mundy claimed Kermode to be the richest Manxman in the world, in his book ''Our Antipodes''. Kermode's mansion, Mona Vale, itself was at the time the largest house in Australia.<ref name=cambridgepress>{{cite book|last1=Jupp|first1=James|title=The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins|date=2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=591|isbn=9780521807890|edition=1st|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yTKFBXfCI1QC&q=mona+vale%2C+tasmania&pg=PA591|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Godfrey|first1=Mundy|title=Our Antipodes; Or, Residence and Rambles in the Australian Colonies: With a Glimpse of the Gold Fields, Volume 3|date=1852|publisher=R. Bentley|page=[https://archive.org/details/ourantipodesorr07mundgoog/page/n297 283]|url=https://archive.org/details/ourantipodesorr07mundgoog|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref>
==Life== Kermode was born on the Isle of Man. His parents were William Kermode (1780–1852), a merchant and settler from the Isle of Man, and Margaret Kermode (née Quayle).<ref name=adb /> Kermode arrived in Van Diemen's Land with his father in 1827 and married his wife, Martha, daughter of Thomas Archer in November 1839.<ref name=adb/> Kermode was a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for the Electoral division of Campbell Town from 28 October 1851 to 1852 and for the Electoral division of Longford from 10 October 1856 until resigning in 1857.<ref name=parl>{{cite Tas Parliament |id=kermoder21 |title=Kermode, Robert Quayle |access-date=24 July 2022}}</ref> Kermode was then a member of the Assembly for Ringwood from 16 May 1857 to 1859 and again from 17 June 1861 to 1862.<ref name=parl/> Then Kermode represented the Electoral division of North Esk from 13 June 1864 until retiring on 18 July 1868.<ref name=parl/> Kermode died on 4 May 1870, at the age of 58.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Obituary – Robert Quayle Kermode – Obituaries Australia |url=https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/kermode-robert-quayle-2832 |access-date=7 June 2022 |website=oa.anu.edu.au}}</ref>
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