George William Cole

George William Cole (15 January 1823 – 4 December 1893) was a politician in the colony of South Australia.

He was born in Lindfield, Sussex the son of George Cole (2 May 1792 – 20 November 1853) and Sarah Cooper (c. 1787 – 1837);George married Mrs Jane Mitchell in 1838. George, Jane and George's 7 children arrived in South Australia on 9 July 1839 on the Lysander

He was employed as City Valuator from around 1865.

He was, like his father, a confirmed teetotaler, active in the Bible Christian Missionary Society and the Total Abstinence Society and important in the founding of Rechabites in South Australia. He was a lay preacher for the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Adelaide.

He was a member of Parliament for the seats of Burra and Clare 1860–1862, with fellow teetotaler William Dale as his associate, and The Burra 1862–1866, when he resigned. He fought for abolition of liquor and closing of railways on Sundays. In the 1850s he lived next door to the Temperance Hall in Tynte Street, North Adelaide; later at Lymington Cottage, Melbourne Street, North Adelaide.

He married Ann Elizabeth Mitchell (14 January 1824 – 9 October 1915) on 1 December 1845.

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