George Oughton (20 February 1842 – 12 September 1898) was a musician and bandleader in South Australia, remembered as the Adelaide Town Hall's first organist.
When young he returned with his parents to England, where he went to school conducted by Professor Newth in Oundle, Northamptonshire, and in addition to the usual subjects he studied music, for which he had shown an early aptitude.
[3] He became associated with the Unitarian congregation at a social meeting at White's Rooms in July 1875, and in December 1876 was appointed their organist[4] while it was being constructed.
[2] He served, in a voluntary capacity, in charge of the Town Hall organ as City Organist from 1879 to 1885, succeeded by T. H. Jones.
[10] He returned to Adelaide suffering ill health and paralysed in 1895,[11] and lived bed-bound with his daughter and son-in-law in Flinders Street, where he died.