John George Winchester Wilmot (19 September 1830 – 3 August 1895) was an English-born pioneering coffee planter in British Ceylon and a surveyor in Victoria, Australia.
News of the New South Wales gold rush caused Wilmot to go to Australia to find his fortune in 1852.
A suggestion he made, together with Alfred William Howitt in 1867 led to the survey of the eastern border between Victoria and New South Wales, the Black-Allan Line.
[4] A conservative, identifying strongly with squatter interests, Wilmot was mentioned as a possible candidate for South Gippsland.
"[5] In 1867, he married Hannah Louisa Whittakers, the daughter of English-born squatters in Tubbut, north-east Gippsland.
[7] His pallbearers included James Service, Richard Speight, Thomas Prout Webb and Frederic Hughes.
He also named Bessiebelle, Dundonnell, Dunneworthy, Glenrowan, Mangalore, Miepoll, Willaura and Helendoit.
[9] In 2006, Wilmot's field notes, from his 1865 survey of the country lands of the Parish of Bumberrah, were used to re-establish the boundaries of the crown allotment on the lakeshore of Tambo Bay, Lake King, much of the reservation having been inundated in the meantime.