George Greene (Australian politician)

George Henry Greene (20 July 1838 – 22 December 1911) was an Irish-born Australian politician.

He was born in Collon in County Louth to farmer William Pomeroy Greene and Anne Griffith.

Greene studied at the University of Melbourne, where he received a Bachelor of Arts, and was subsequently a pastoralist on the Murray River.

On his return Greene bought Iandra, a 32,600 acre (13,193 ha) estate near Grenfell, in 1878 and began grazing and wheat-growing.

[1] In 1889 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Grenfell.