George Macfarlan (1837/1838 – 9 October 1868) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament representing the Lyttelton electorate.
[1] He was educated at Shrewsbury School before attending Trinity College, Cambridge,[2] where he obtained a "very high degree",[3] passing his final exams in 1860 as fourteenth wrangler.
[1] He moved to London to qualify as a lawyer, and was called to the bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in June 1863.
[4][5] After that, he was a solicitor with Macfarlan and Nottidge, also located in the central town square.
[9][10] His grave, together with a large area of the Bolton Street Cemetery, was removed in the late 1960s / early 1970s to make way for the Wellington Urban Motorway.