HART, GEORGE (1820-95) was born at Winchmore Hill, London, and educated there. He came to New Zealand with his brother, Robert Hart (q.v.) in the Mary (1843), and settled in Wellington. In 1848 he paid a visit to England and, returning in the Phoebe Dunbar, he settled in Canterbury, where he took up the Winchmore run (1853). Then he returned to Wellington and was elected to the first Provincial Council for Hutt (1853), which he represented to 1861. From 1859-61 he was speaker. In 1859 he married Miss Kenison James (Sydney). Shortly after this he left Wellington to take up his residence in Canterbury. In 1866 he took over also the Fernside and Birch Hill properties. The former he sold in 1874 (with 40,000 sheep). In 1867-68 Hart was a member of the Canterbury provincial executive. He was elected to represent Coleridge in Parliament (1879), but at the general election a few months later was defeated by E. G. Wright. Hart died on 19 Aug 1895. (See R. PARK)

Wellington and Canterbury P.C. Proc.; Parltry Record; Acland; Lyttelton Times, 21 Aug 1895.

Reference: Volume 1, page 199

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