George_Simpson_(Queensland_politician)

George Simpson (Queensland politician)

George Simpson (Queensland politician)

Australian politician

George Morris Simpson (7 May 1840 – 22 August 1919)[1] was an Australian politician.

Quick Facts Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Dalby, Preceded by ...

He was born in Sydney to George Thorant Simpson, an accountant, and Ruth Francis. Brought up by long-serving New South Wales politician Sir John Hay, he attended Sydney Grammar School before moving to Queensland to farm. On 10 November 1875 he married Emily Ellen Vaughan Jenkins, with whom he would have nine children. He was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1878 as the member for Dalby, and he served until 1882.[2] He was also a candidate for the New South Wales seat of New England at the first federal election.[3]

Simpson died in 1919 in Sydney and was buried at Waverley Cemetery.[4][5]

References

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    Our Family History and Ancestry — Queensland Family Trees.com. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
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    "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
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    COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 29-30 MARCH 1901 — Psephos. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
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    Waterson, D.B. (1972). A Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860-1929. Australian National University Press. ISBN 0708108164.
  5. [5]
    "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 23 August 1919. p. 15. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
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