George Boyle White

George Boyle White was an Irish-born Australian politician.
He was born in Bantry to Royal Navy officer Boyle White and Honoria O'Sullivan. He is believed to have gone to sea at a young age, visiting Sydney in 1819 and China in the early 1820s before settling in Sydney in 1826, where he became a clerk for the Colonial Secretaries Office. From 1827 he was assistant surveyor and then from 1838 surveyor in the Surveyor-General's Department. On 17 June 1830 he married Maria Greig Mudie, with whom he had three children. He retired from surveying in 1853 and farmed at Singleton, [New South Wales|Singleton], Maitland and Raymond Terrace, but was not successful, being bankrupted in 1847. In 1858 he was elected to the New [South Wales Legislative Assembly] for Northumberland and Hunter, but he did not re-contest in 1859. He was bankrupted again in 1867. White died in Double Bay in 1876.