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Former Member Details

Mr George Boyle WHITE (1802 - 1876)

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Date of Birth: 24/08/1802
Place of Birth: Bantry, Cork, Ireland
Date of Death: 25/05/1876
Place of Death: Double Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
Position Start End Period Notes
Railway to Morpeth Committee No.7 21 Dec 1858 09 Apr 1859 3 months 20 days
Extension of Railway to Windsor Committee No.6 17 Dec 1858 09 Apr 1859 3 months 24 days
Railway to Morpeth Committee No.31 31 Aug 1858 26 Nov 1858 2 months 27 days
Extension of Railway to Windsor Committee No.30 23 Jul 1858 26 Nov 1858 4 months 4 days
Management of the Survey Department Committee No.15 30 Apr 1858 26 Nov 1858 6 months 28 days Chairman
Alluvial Lands of the Hunter Committee No.10 16 Apr 1858 26 Nov 1858 7 months 11 days
Navigation of the Murray, & c. Committee No.8 13 Apr 1858 26 Nov 1858 7 months 14 days
Governor General’s Opening Speech Committee No.1 24 Mar 1858 24 Mar 1858 1 day
Member for Northumberland and Hunter 30 Jan 1858 11 Apr 1859 1 year 2 months 13 days
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly 30 Jan 1858 11 Apr 1859 1 year 2 months 13 days
Political Party Activity
Community Activity
Commissioned as a Justice of the Peace
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Retired surveyor and sometime farmer. Educated at Croydon School and Startforth Hall School. Probably went to sea, visiting Sydney in 1819, China from 1821 until 1822. Arrived in Sydney in 1826. Third class clerk in Colonial Secretaries Office in 1826; resigned. Assistant surveyor in Surveyor General's Department in 1827; promoted surveyor in 1838; licensed surveyor from 1844 until 1846; retired on pension in 1853. Farmed and ran stock at Singleton , Maitland, Raymond Terrace; unsuccessful. Bankrupt in 1847 and 1867. Surveying work in Hunter River district retiring there at Raymond Terrace. Auditor of Australian Union Benefit Society in 1846. As a Member of the Legislative Assembly chaired the select committee into the management of the Survey Department.
Military Service
Honours Received
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Personal
Eldest son of Boyle White, Royal Navy and Honoria O'Sullivan. Married Maria Greig Mudie on 17 June 1830 in Sydney and had issue, 1 daughter and 2 sons. Buried without religious rites.
Additional Information
Personal papers in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales: 1. George Boyle White - correspondence, 1828 - 1892 (MLMSS 1806X); 2. George Boyle White - papers, 1827 - 1888, 1893 - 1899; photographs in the PICMAN Database. 3. George Boyle White - further papers, ca. 1827 - 1895; photographs in the PICMAN Database.