| Thomas Macdonald-Paterson | |
| Constituency Mp: | Brisbane |
| Parliament: | Australian |
| Predecessor: | New seat |
| Successor: | Millice Culpin |
| Term Start: | 30 March 1901 |
| Term End: | 16 December 1903 |
| Constituency Am1: | Rockhampton |
| Assembly1: | Queensland Legislative |
| Term Start1: | 15 November 1878 |
| Term End1: | 17 August 1883 |
| Predecessor1: | New seat |
| Successor1: | William Higson |
| Alongside1: | William Rea, John Ferguson |
| Constituency Am2: | Moreton |
| Assembly2: | Queensland Legislative |
| Term Start2: | 21 November 1883 |
| Term End2: | 21 April 1885 |
| Predecessor2: | James Garrick |
| Successor2: | Hiram Wakefield |
| Constituency Am3: | Brisbane North |
| Assembly3: | Queensland Legislative |
| Term Start3: | 21 March 1896 |
| Term End3: | 31 July 1901 |
| Predecessor3: | Thomas McIlwraith |
| Successor3: | John Cameron |
| Alongside3: | Robert Fraser, Edward Forrest |
| Office4: | Member of the Queensland Legislative Council |
| Term Start4: | 22 April 1885 |
| Term End4: | 11 March 1896 |
| Birth Date: | 1844 5, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Glasgow, Scotland |
| Death Place: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Restingplace: | Toowong Cemetery |
| Nationality: | Scottish Australian |
| Spouse: | Maria Clarissa Pitts |
| Party: | Protectionist (1901 - 03) Independent (1903) |
| Otherparty: | Ministerialist |
| Occupation: | Lawyer |
Thomas Macdonald-Paterson (9 May 1844 – 21 March 1906) was an Australian politician, a member of the Parliament of Queensland, and later, the Parliament of Australia.
Macdonald-Paterson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated there privately before migrating to Australia in 1861, where he became a butcher, speculator and lawyer.
In 1878 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the member for Rockhampton; he transferred to Moreton in 1883 and to the Legislative Council in 1885, remaining there until 1887. He was a delegate to the Federation Convention of 1891, and returned to the Legislative Assembly in 1896 as the member for North Brisbane.
In 1901 he transferred to federal politics, winning the Australian House of Representatives seat of Brisbane. Although there was no protectionist organisation in Queensland, he joined the Protectionist Party when the parliament sat. In 1903, the National Liberal Union (a protectionist organisation) endorsed another candidate William Morse in Brisbane, and the division of the protectionist vote allowed a Labor candidate Millice Culpin to defeat Macdonald-Paterson.
He died in 1906 and was buried in Toowong Cemetery.[1] [2]