Talk:Eden George

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A fact from Eden George appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 May 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Aaron Ayers, Henry Thomson, and Eden George all unsuccessfully contested the Christchurch South election in the 1887 election and were at some point Mayors of Christchurch?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Aaron Ayers, Henry Thomson, Eden George.

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DYK nomination

Template:Did you know nominations/Aaron Ayers, Henry Thomson, Eden George

Material for article expansion

Material for article expansion can be found at Trove's archive of newspapers from the period. There's a couple of interesting items regarding his time in Australia there:

~~Stood for the Australian Senate (1901)~~
~~Prosecuted for employing a girl without paying wages (1902)~~
~~Sold all his racehorses after 90 races without a win (1902)~~
Raised a motion calling for New South Wales to secede from the Commonwealth of Australia (1902)
~~Sued for libel by a government official (1903)~~
Defects from the Ministerialists over policy reform (1903)
~~Lost ₤800 when war broke out while attending his daughter's wedding in Germany (1914)~~
~~Suffered exposure while manning an ambulance in France during World War I (1916)~~
~~Son Leslie killed flying for the air force in England (1918)~~
Sued two newspapers for defamation (1926)
Damages reduced on appeal in defamation case (1927)

List kindly compiled by User:Canley. Schwede 66 18:25, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Work towards GA

Hi there, I think this article isn't far off GA class, and I'd like to work with an Australian editor who is more familiar with NSW sources than I am, and has better access to those. Please comment if you are keen to help. Schwede 66 18:02, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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