George Simpson (Queensland politician)

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|honorific-prefix =

|name = George Simpson

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|caption =

| constituency_AM1 = Dalby

| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative

| term_start1 = 15 November 1878

| term_end1 = 20 January 1882

| predecessor1 = Joshua Peter Bell

| successor1 = John Jessop

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1840|5|7|df=y}}

|birth_place = Sydney, Australia

|death_date = {{death date and age|1919|8|22|1840|5|7|df=y}}

|death_place = Sydney, Australia

|restingplace = Waverley Cemetery

|birthname = George Morris Simpson

|nationality = Australian

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|spouse = Emily Ellen Vaughan Jenkins (m.1875 d.1930)

| occupation = Petroleum industry

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George Morris Simpson (7 May 1840 – 22 August 1919)[http://www.queenslandfamilytrees.com/getperson.php?personID=I12239&tree=5 Our Family History and Ancestry] — Queensland Family Trees.com. Retrieved 11 January 2015. was an Australian politician.

He was born in Sydney to George Thorant Simpson, an accountant, and Ruth Francis. Brought up by long-serving New South Wales politician Sir John Hay, he attended Sydney Grammar School before moving to Queensland to farm. On 10 November 1875 he married Emily Ellen Vaughan Jenkins, with whom he would have nine children. He was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1878 as the member for Dalby, and he served until 1882.{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=3764170265|accessdate= 3 February 2015}} He was also a candidate for the New South Wales seat of New England at the first federal election.[http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1901/1901repsnsw.txt COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 29-30 MARCH 1901] — Psephos. Retrieved 11 January 2015.

Simpson died in 1919 in Sydney and was buried at Waverley Cemetery.{{cite book|title=A Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860-1929|last=Waterson|first=D.B.|publisher=Australian National University Press|date=1972|isbn=0708108164}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28096689 |title=Family Notices. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=23 August 1919 |accessdate=4 February 2015 |page=15 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}