Thomas McKay (Australian politician)

Thomas Sidney McKay (1 October 1909 – 5 January 2004) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Mosman to journalist Claude Eric Ferguson McKay and Dorothy Hope Sidney. He qualified as a lawyer at the University of Sydney and was called to the bar in 1934. From 1940 to 1945 he served in the Royal Australian Air Force, achieving the rank of wing commander. He was a prosecutor at the Rabaul war crimes trial in 1947. From 1950 to 1960 he was a dairy farmer around Berrima, and he served on Wingecarribee Shire Council from 1950 to 1953. From 1966 to 1978 he was a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. McKay died at Exeter in 2004.