George Lansell, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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(1883-1959) businessman, politician and philanthropist
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About George Lansell
- Sir George Victor Lansell (3 October 1883 – 9 January 1959) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in London to mining entrepreneur George Lansell and Harriet Edith Bassford.
- He was educated in Bendigo and at Melbourne Grammar School, and in 1906 inherited his father's estate of £6 million.
- He owned the Bendigo Independent newspaper and merged it with the Bendigo Advertiser in 1918, and was chairman of a large number of media and other companies around regional Victoria.
- During World War I he served in the AIF with the 38th Battalion, becoming a captain but being wounded on the Western Front.
- In 1923 he was awarded the Volunteer Decoration and promoted to commanding officer of his battalion; he was raised to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1927 and appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1937.
- In 1928 he had won election to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Nationalist member for Bendigo Province.
- In 1944 he defected to the Country Party, but he joined the Liberal and Country Party in 1949; he remained sympathetic to the Country Party government of John McDonald.
- Lansell was knighted in 1951, but lost his seat in the Council the following year.
- He died in Bendigo in 1959.
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