George Greene (Australian politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

George Greene (Australian politician)

Australian pastoralist, farmer and politician

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1838

Place of Birth: Collon, Leinster, Ireland

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1911

Profession: politician, farmer

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About George Greene (Australian politician)

  • George Henry Greene (20 July 1838 – 22 December 1911) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born in Collon in County Louth to farmer William Pomeroy Greene and Anne Griffith.
  • In 1842 the family moved to Melbourne, where William Greene established the Woodlands estate.
  • Greene studied at the University of Melbourne, where he received a Bachelor of Arts, and was subsequently a pastoralist on the Murray River.
  • In 1870 he married Ellen Elizabeth Crawford, with whom he had five children.
  • In 1875, he sold his share in his properties and embarked on a two-year world tour.
  • On his return Greene bought Iandra, a 32,600 acre (13,193 ha) estate near Grenfell, in 1878 and began grazing and wheat-growing. In 1889 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Grenfell.
  • Defeated in 1891, he returned in 1894 but his election was invalidated a few months later.
  • Re-elected again in 1895, he retired in 1898.
  • From 1899 to 1911 he was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
  • In 1893 he had been Commissioner of the Chicago Exposition.
  • Greene died at Grenfell in 1911.

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