George Marchant (politician)

George Albert Marchant was a New Zealand politician who served as a Member of Parliament.

Biography

Marchant was born in 1849 in London to parents from Devonshire. He received his education at King's College School in Wimbledon. Emigrating first to Australia, he came to New Zealand in 1872. He lived initially in Kakaramea, and moved to Cardiff near Stratford in 1881, where he lived for the remaining six decades of his life. Marchant was a pioneering dairy farmer.
He represented the Taranaki electorate from to 1890, when he retired.
Marchant married Esther Foreman from Alton in 1878. They were to have seven sons. One of his brothers, Frederick, was the engineer in charge of the construction of Timaru and Oamaru harbours. Marchant died on 24 January 1943 in Stratford. His wife had died in 1922.