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Former Member Details

Mr George HILL (1802 - 1883)

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Date of Birth: 25/03/1802
Place of Birth: Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Death: 19/07/1883
Place of Death: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
Position Start End Period Notes
Member of the NSW Legislative Council 22 May 1856 10 May 1861 4 years 11 months 19 days First (Quinquennial) Appointments under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 20 May 1856.
Member of the NSW Legislative Council 01 Jul 1848 31 May 1849 11 months 1 day An Elective Member of the first Legislative Council 1843 - 1856 for the Counties of St Vincent and Auckland
Political Party Activity
Community Activity
Commissioned as a Justice of the Peace (JP) in 1844.
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Butcher. Had limited education. Father became superintendent of the government slaughter house and in 1828 was a butcher in Pitt Street. Accumulated real estate and in 1838 - 1850 held Yanko, 56,000 acres on Murrumbidgee River. Trustee of New South Wales Savings Bank 1850 - 1883; committee member of the benevolent Asylum and the Cumberland Agricultural Society. Visited Californian goldfields in 1849.
Military Service
Honours Received
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Foundation Councillor of the Sydney City Council for Macquarie Ward, 1 November 1842 - 31 December 1851; and 11 April 1857 - 30 November 1858. mayor 1850
Personal
Son of William Hill and Mary Johnston. His father was a convict, transported for life for felony, on the 'Ganges' 1797; in 1798 his mother, also a convict, arrived on the 'Britannia' with a seven-year sentence. Married (1) Mary Ann Hunter. Married (2) Jane Binnie and had issue 5 daughters and 5 sons. Church of England. The Hill family was closely connected with Wentworth and Cooper families.
Additional Information
Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB), Volume 4.