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Joseph Lievesley Beeston {{post-nominals|country=AUS|CMG|VD}} (1859 – 8 March 1921) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Newcastle to traffic manager John Lievesley Beeston and Amelia Jane Denison. He received a local education before travelling to Ireland, where he studied at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin. Around 1881 he married Anna Maria Read, with whom he had four children. He returned to New South Wales, practising in Newcastle as a surgeon in a number of partnerships and as honorary surgeon at Newcastle Hospital. In 1908 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, where he generally supported the Liberals. In 1914 he enlisted in the AIF with the Field Ambulance, serving in Gallipoli. He achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel, but was invalided after contracting malaria and returned to Australia in 1916. In 1915 he was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George; he also received the Volunteer Officers' Decoration. Beeston died at Newcastle in 1921.^[1]

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