George Westbrook

George Egerton Leigh Westbrook (1860–31 January 1939) was a Western Samoan businessman and politician.

Born in Camberwell in London England,[1] Westbrook sailed to New Zealand on the full-rigged ship Famenoth, before beginning to travel the Pacific.

[4] He became a shop keeper,[5] married a Samoan woman,[6] and was the Apia correspondent for the New Zealand Herald.

[9] In 1928 Westbrook was declared bankrupt,[10] and he did not run for re-election in 1929.

[11] In 1935 he published an autobiographical book named Gods Who Die: The Story of Samoa's Greatest Adventurer about his travels around the Pacific in the late 19th century.