BARTON, GEORGE ELLIOTT (1820-1903) was born at The Grove, County Tipperary, Ireland. Just after taking his B.A. at Trinity College, Dublin (1848), he was implicated with other young Orange students in the revolt, and was expelled. He then went to Australia and worked on the goldfields and at manual labour until entering upon the study of law under J. B. Bennett, Melbourne, who admitted him to partnership. He entered parliament for Melbourne North as a supporter of the Land League. Barton lived in Paris for a few weeks before his death, which occurred in 1903. (See his biography, vol. i, 46.)

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Reference: Volume 2, page 272

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