Anthony Loton

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = The Honourable

| name = Anthony Loton

| honorific_suffix =

| image =

| alt =

| caption =

| office = 9th President of the Legislative Council
of Western Australia

| term_start = 17 June 1954

| term_end = 6 August 1958

| predecessor = Sir Harold Seddon

| successor = Sir Charles Latham

| office2 = Member of the Legislative Council
of Western Australia

| constituency2 = South-East Province

| term_start2 = 18 November 1944

| term_end2 = 21 May 1950

| predecessor2 = Harold Piesse

| successor2 = George Bennetts

| constituency3 = South Province

| term_start3 = 21 May 1950

| term_end3 = 21 May 1965

| predecessor3 = George Bennetts

| successor3 = Edward House

| birth_name = Anthony Lloyd Loton

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|2|13|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Upper Swan, Western Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|5|14|1904|2|13|df=yes}}

| death_place = Kalamunda, Western Australia

| party = Country

| alma_mater =

}}

Anthony Lloyd Loton (13 February 1904 – 14 May 1998) was an Australian politician who served as a Country Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1944 to 1965. He was President of the Legislative Council from 1954 to 1958.

Loton was born in Upper Swan, Western Australia, to Annie Campbell ({{nee}} Forrest) and Ernest William Loton. His mother was a niece of Sir John Forrest, the first Premier of Western Australia, and his paternal grandfather, Sir William Loton, was a Mayor of Perth. Loton was educated in Perth, attending Christ Church Grammar School and Hale School. After leaving school, he initially farmed on his father's farm at Upper Swan, but later took over a property in Popanyinning (a small Wheatbelt locality). Prominent in agricultural circles, Loton was elected to parliament at a 1944 by-election for the Legislative Council's South-East Province, which had been caused by the death of Harold Piesse. After the 1947 state election, he was made deputy chairman of committees. In May 1954, the President of the Legislative Council, Sir Harold Seddon, lost his seat, and Loton was elected in his place. The first holder of the office from the Country Party, he served in the position for just over four years, leaving office in August 1958. Loton retired from parliament at the 1965 state election.[http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/library/MPHistoricalData.nsf/(Lookup)/D9487A0F47F8C89F482577E50028A6C5?OpenDocument Anthony Lloyd Loton] – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 24 May 2016.