George Merriman (1845 – 17 November 1893) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to shipowner James Merriman, later also a politician, and Anne Thompson. He attended Fort Street Public School and

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before clerking for a number of solicitors. He was admitted as a solicitor around 1868. Around 1872 he married Minnie Hamilton, with whom he had five children. In 1882 he was elected to the

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for West Sydney. Defeated in 1885, he was returned in 1887 but retired due to ill health in 1889. Merriman died at

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in 1893.

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