George Roberts (Victorian politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About George Roberts (Victorian politician)
- George Ernest Roberts (15 February 1868 – 25 November 1925) was an Australian politician. Born in Hotham to engine-fitter George Roberts and Mary Dargie, he became a hairdresser at Collins Street, Rutherglen and Richmond.
- On 5 April 1890 he married music teacher Mary Maud Brown.
- In 1903 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Richmond, but he was defeated in 1904.
- He left the Labor Party soon afterwards in opposition to the Catholic influence.
- He was subsequently a hairdresser at Geelong, Tatura and Malvern.
- During World War I, he served in the Australian Imperial Force's 6th Battalion as a company sergeant major, fighting in France and Belgium, where he was wounded.
- Roberts was killed in a car accident at Prahran in 1925.
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