George Duncan Mercer (27 December 1814 – 25 July 1884)
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was a landowner and pastoralist in colonial
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Mercer was born in India, the son of
George Dempster Mercer and Frances Charlotte Reid.
[ Mercer, with his cousin William Mercer, reached Hobart from Calcutta in March 1838, having sold out from the 45th Regiment ]Bengal Native Infantry
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The Mercers established themselves as pastoralists in properties near Geelong
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His brother John
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later joined him in Australia.
In 1856 G. D. Mercer returned to Scotland, where he died unmarried in 1884.
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19th-century Australian farmers
1814 births
1884 deaths