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English-born Australian politician
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George Lansell
Statue of Lansell in Rosalind Park
Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Bendigo
In office
1 June 1928 – 1 June 1952
Preceded byJoseph Sternberg
Succeeded byArthur Smith
Personal details
Born3 October 1883
London, United Kingdom
Died9 January 1959
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
NationalityBritish-Australian
Political partyNationalist, Country, Liberal and Country
Spouse Edith Florence Gwendoline Frew ​ ​(m. 1910)​
Children3

Sir George Victor Lansell CMG VD (3 October 1883 – 9 January 1959) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born in London to mining entrepreneur George Lansell and Harriet Edith Bassford. He was educated in Bendigo and at Melbourne Grammar School, and in 1906 inherited his father's estate of £6 million. He owned the Bendigo Independent newspaper and merged it with the Bendigo Advertiser in 1918, and was chairman of a large number of media and other companies around regional Victoria. During World War I he served in the AIF with the 38th Battalion, becoming a captain but being wounded on the Western Front. In 1923 he was awarded the Volunteer Decoration and promoted to commanding officer of his battalion; he was raised to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1927 and appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1937. In 1928 he had won election to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Nationalist member for Bendigo Province. In 1944 he defected to the Country Party, but he joined the Liberal and Country Party in 1949; he remained sympathetic to the Country Party government of John McDonald. Lansell was knighted in 1951, but lost his seat in the Council the following year. He died in Bendigo in 1959.


References

  1. "Lansell, Sir George Victor – Re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851". Parliament of Victoria. 2001. Archived from the original on 2 April 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
Victorian Legislative Council
Preceded byJoseph Sternberg Member for Bendigo
1928–1952
Served alongside: Herbert Keck; John Lienhop; Thomas Grigg 		Succeeded byArthur Smith
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