George Briner, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

George Briner

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1862

Date of Death: 09-Sep-1920

Profession: politician

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About George Briner

  • George Stuart Briner (5 April 1862 – 9 September 1920) was an Australian politician. He was born in Morses Creek in Victoria to miner William Torents Briner and Mary Ann, née Whyatt.
  • After attending Scotch College and the University of Melbourne, he worked as a teacher, and arrived in New South Wales in 1881, where he taught until 1891.
  • In that year he began work as a journalist for the Goulburn Evening Penny Post before moving to Bellingen and editing the Raleigh Sun (1894–98).
  • In 1901 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Raleigh, representing the Progressive Party.
  • Following that party's collapse in 1907 he was one of the few members re-elected as a "Former Progressive", and he spent the next ten years sitting as an independent before joining the Nationalist Party in 1917.
  • In 1920 he was elected as one of the members for Oxley representing the new Progressive Party, a forerunner of the Country Party, but he died at Lewisham later that year.
  • He had married Annie Mary Taylor in 1905.

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