George Howarth (1854 – 28 June 1908) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in

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, and became a mariner before eventually settling in

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in 1883. He worked as a wool presser on the

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and at

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before becoming a staff surveyor and then a butcher. On 26 January 1891 he married Ellen Elizabeth Hammond; they had three children. He was a Willoughby alderman from 1892 to 1895 and from 1900 to 1901. In 1895 he was elected to the

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as the

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member for Willoughby, serving until he was declared bankrupt in 1903. He then became a storekeeper. Howarth died at Colyton in 1908.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Howarth, George 1854 births 1908 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Free Trade Party politicians 19th-century Australian politicians British emigrants to the Colony of New South Wales