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George McLeod Matheson (1853 – 28 November 1895) was an Australian politician. He was a sharebroker before entering politics, and was based in
Broken Hill Broken Hill is an inland mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia. It is near the border with South Australia on the crossing of the Barrier Highway (A32) and the Silver City Highway (B79), in the Barrier Range. It is ...
. In 1887 he was elected to the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...
as the
Free Trade Free trade is a trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports. It can also be understood as the free market idea applied to international trade. In government, free trade is predominantly advocated by political parties that hold econo ...
member for Glen Innes, but he did not re-contest in 1889. He died after falling over the balcony of the Royal Hotel at Coolgardie in 1895.


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  {{DEFAULTSORT:Matheson, George 1853 births 1895 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Free Trade Party politicians 19th-century Australian politicians Accidental deaths in Western Australia