George Stuart Briner (5 April 1862 – 9 September 1920) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to miner William Torents Briner and Mary Ann, ''née'' Whyatt. After attending Scotch College and the

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, he worked as a teacher, and arrived in

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in 1881, where he taught until 1891. In that year, he began work as a journalist for the ''

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'' before moving to Bellingen and editing the '' Raleigh Sun'' (1894–98). In 1901 he was elected to the

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as the member for

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, representing the

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. 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

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representing the new

, a forerunner of the Country Party, but he died at

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later that year. He had married Annie Mary Taylor in 1905.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Briner, George 1862 births 1920 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of New South Wales Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Colony of Victoria people