George Winter (Australian politician)

George Winter (1815 – 14 September 1879)^[1]^[2] was a pastoralist and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council.^[1]

Early life

Winter was born in Oakley Park, King's county, Ireland,^[2] the son of Samuel Pratt Winter and Frances Rosa, née Bamford.^[1]

Colonial Australia

Winter arrived in the Port Phillip District in August 1837.^[1] On 2 June 1853 Winter was elected to the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council for Villiers and Heytesbury.^[3] Winter held this position until resigning in August 1854.^[1]

Winter died in Levuka, Fiji on 14 September 1879;^[2] he had earlier married Elizabeth Cox.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Winter, George". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Deaths". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 October 1879. p. 1 – via Trove.
^ Labilliere, Francis Peter (1878). "Early History of the Colony of Victoria". Retrieved 20 July 2014.

Victorian Legislative Council
New seat	Member for Villiers and Heytesbury June 1853 – August 1854 With: William Rutledge 1853–54 Claud Farie 1854	Succeeded by William Forlonge

[parl-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Winter, George". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023.

[SMH-2] "Deaths". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 October 1879. p. 1 – via Trove.

[3] Labilliere, Francis Peter (1878). "Early History of the Colony of Victoria". Retrieved 20 July 2014.

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