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Mr George Alexander DEWAR (1868 - )

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Date of Birth: 25/03/1868
Place of Birth: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Date of Death:
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Parliamentary Service
Position Start End Period Notes
Member of the NSW Legislative Council 14 Sep 1921 22 Apr 1934 12 years 7 months 9 days Life Appointment under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 30 August 1921.
Political Party Activity
Australian Labor Party (ALP). Member of Mudgee league.
Community Activity
Commissioned as a Justice of the Peace in 1911
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Goldminer and brewer. Educated in Presbyterian and public schools in Melbourne; rural worker; goldminer at Chiltern, victimised for union activities; various jobs, including cutting firewood; moved to Mudgee in c.1903, brewer at Federal Brewery, owned by Henry Smith, A.C Wade and Jack Birtles; goldmining interests; retired to Mount Isa; member of Australian Natives Association and Anti Sweating League; opposed federation bill. member of Mudgee Pastures Protection Board, debating society., profress association, band association, Caledonian Society; secularist
Military Service
Honours Received
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Personal
Date of death is not known. Son of Donald Dewar, waiter, and Sarah Dallas. Married Catherine on c.1894 and had issue, 1 daughter.
Additional Information

The Parliament of New South Wales acknowledges and respects the traditional lands of all Aboriginal people, and pays respects to all Elders past and present. We acknowledge the Gadigal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which the Parliament of New South Wales stands.