George Harker (1816 – 25 April 1879) was a businessman and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
[2] On the termination of his apprenticeship he was for some time dispensing assistant to a surgeon at Leeds, and subsequently carried on business as a chemist at Prescot, near Liverpool, where he was treasurer of the local Anti-Corn Law League.
He bought property on the Yarra River which he farmed until 1850, when he started as a grain and produce merchant in Melbourne.
[2] In 1856 Harker retired from business,[2] and was returned to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Collingwood in November 1856.
[3] Harker held many important public positions, including being the founding director of the Collingwood Gas Company, and died suddenly on 5 April 1879 in Melbourne.