Person
Wyndham, George (1801 - 1870)
- Born
- 1801
Dinton, Wiltshire, England - Died
- 24 December 1870
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Viticulturist and Agriculturalist
Summary
George Wyndham settled near Branxton in the Hunter River valley, New South Wales, and began experimental farming with such crops as maize, wheat, hemp, mustard, castor oil, tobacco, millet, cape barley and the grape varieties Hermitage, Cabernet and Shiraz.
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- George Wyndham - Records, 1830 - 1840, B1313; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- George Wyndham - Records, 1827 - 1869, ML MSS 190; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Private hands (Wyndham, H.S.)
- George Wyndham - Records, 1801 - 1870; Private hands (Wyndham, H.S.). Details
Published resources
Books
- Wyndham, H. A., A Family History, 1688-1837, the Wyndhams of Somerset, Sussex and Wiltshire (London: 1950). Details
Book Sections
- McKinney, Judith Wright, 'Wyndham, George (1801-1870), farmer, wine-grower and pastoralist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 2: 1788 - 1850 I-Z, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967), pp. 630-631. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020576b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16000025. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/277834623. Details
- 'Wyndham, George (1801-1870)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1465825. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 8 August 2006
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