George Lumsden
{{Short description|New Zealand politician}}
{{for|the American diplomat|George Quincey Lumsden Jr.}}
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|order = Mayor of Invercargill
|term_start1 = 1873
|term_end1 = 1874
|term_start2 = 1878
|term_end2 = 1879
|birth_date = {{birth date|1815|3|12|df=y}}
|birth_place = Fife, Scotland
|death_date = {{death date and age|1904|2|11|1815|3|12|df=y}}
|spouse = {{marriage|Christina Anderson|1842}}
|children = 8
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George Lumsden (12 March 1815 – 11 February 1904) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician.
Biography
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Lumsden was born in Fife, Scotland, in 1815. He learned the trade of watchmaker from his uncle at Pittenweem. Lumsden and his wife Christina (née Anderson, married 1842) emigrated to Geelong, Australia, in 1858 on the Ravenseraig. He joined the gold rush in Ballarat, but returned to his watchmakers shop in Geelong. In 1861, they moved to Invercargill.{{cite book |title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Otago & Southland Provincial Districts |year=1905 |url= http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc04Cycl-t1-body1-d6-d2-d6.html |publisher=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand |author=Cyclopedia Company Limited |access-date= 29 June 2012 |location=Christchurch |chapter=Ex-Mayors}}
He was Mayor of Invercargill in 1873–1874 and again in 1878–1879.{{cite web | title=Mayors down the years | url=http://www.icc.govt.nz/YourCouncil/MayorsDownTheYears.aspx | publisher=Invercargill City Council | access-date=18 October 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809053827/http://www.icc.govt.nz/YourCouncil/MayorsDownTheYears.aspx | archive-date=9 August 2010 | df=dmy-all }} He represented the Invercargill electorate in Parliament from 1875 to 1878, when he resigned,{{cite book |last= Scholefield |first= Guy |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 |author-link=Guy Scholefield |edition=3rd |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1950 |publisher=Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |page=120}} as absence from his jewellery shop was affecting his business.
The Lumsdens had eight children. Their son Thomas James Lumsden was born in 1854.
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Category:Burials at Eastern Cemetery, Invercargill
Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
Category:Members of the Otago Provincial Council
Category:Members of the Southland Provincial Council
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Category:Mayors of Invercargill
Category:New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates
Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1871 New Zealand general election
Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1884 New Zealand general election
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