President George Cox Biography

George Cox        (1795 – 1868)

Image from John Broadley, courtesy of the Cox family, Burrundulla, Mudgee]

President Agricultural Society of New South Wales 1862-63

George Cox and his brother Edward (also a Society president) were sons of William Cox, a lieutenant in the New South Wales Corp who arrived in Australia in 1799 with his wife and family. William Cox became paymaster of the Corp but is remembered as the builder of the road across the Blue Mountains and as one of the colony’s early substantial land owners with holdings in the Bathurst, Windsor and Mulgoa areas.

George Cox became a noted pastoralist in his own right and on land at Mulgoa he built Winbourne, a magnificent two-storey mansion. Granted land in Mudgee, he set up a cattle farm but later ran merinos. This flock was highly regarded and further developed by his son, George.

A warm and humane man, he made a lively contribution to the Society his father had helped to found.

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