George Griffiths (Australian politician)
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George Neville Griffiths (23 January 1840 ā 28 April 1905) was a New South Wales colonial politician.[1]
He was born in Sydney to banker George Richard Griffiths[2] and Letitita Chatfield. Educated in England, he graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1861, soon returning to Australia. After a period in Queensland, he returned to Sydney and purchased property throughout both colonies, also founding a stock agents' firm. On 3 March 1874 he married Ada Frances Scott, the daughter of John Scott M.L.A. and M.L.C., with whom he had eight children.[1]
He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for East Sydney in 1882,[3] but he was defeated in 1885.[4]
Griffiths died in Darlinghurst in 1905.[1] He and his wife Ada Frances are buried in Waverley Cemetery.[5]
Griffiths and Ada Scott had four sons and four daughters:[6]
- Frederick Guy, b. 18 July 1876 and d. 6 June 1952[7]
- John Neville, b. 9 September 1881 and killed in action in France 30 November 1917[8]
- Hugh, b. 18 November 1885 and killed in action at Gallipoli 6 August 1915[9]
- Francis, b. 10 March 1890
- Agnes Laetitia, b. 21 March 1875
- Ada Violet, b. 9 February 1878
- Noel Eve, b. 24 December 1879
- Florence Denise, b. 15 August 1883, married 29 October 1906 William Charles Wentworth III, and were the parents of William Charles Wentworth IV M.P.