George Blocksidge

George Henry Blocksidge (20 September 1855 – 20 January 1944) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

He was educated at Brisbane State Schools and became a real estate agent.

On 3 November 1880 he married Kate Georgina Bell[1] (died 1943)[2] at Ipswich and together had two sons and five daughters, one of which was the well-known poet William Baylebridge.

[1] He died in January 1944[1] and his funeral proceeded from Quambathella, his East Brisbane residence[3] to the Balmoral Cemetery.

[4] Blocksidge was mayor of South Brisbane in 1903 before winning the seat of Woolloongabba for the Opposition Party at the 1907 Queensland state election, defeating the sitting member Thomas Dibley.