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George Hingston Lake (10 December 1847 – 31 October 1900) was a politician in the early days of colonial South Australia. ==History== George was born in London to Henry Lake and his wife Ann née Trehane.〔Nancy Robinson Whittle, ('Lake, George Hingston (1847–1900)' ), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 8 April 2015〕 arrived in South Australia with his parents and brother James (1840–1876) in 1853. He worked with his father and brother on a sheep station, near the Barrier Range for five years, then spent three years studying law, articled to the brother James. He served as accountant for brother James and Charles John Reynolds, later mayor of Port Adelaide, who owned, as Lake & Reynolds, a timber merchant's business in Port Adelaide from 1871 to 1877. He worked for Clare lawyer T. R. Bright, managing his office in the rapidly developing town of Jamestown, where he remained for many years, and when it was declared a Municipality in 1878, Lake served as their first town clerk, with (later Sir) John Cockburn as mayor. He was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1883, the year he resigned from the council to concentrate on the local newspaper ''Agriculturist and Review'' which he purchased in 1881 as the ''Jamestown Review''. He was the first secretary of the South Australian Farmers' Co-operative Union, a limited liability company founded in Jamestown in 1888. He sold the ''Review'' to Alfred Gage in 1903.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SA newspapers – Agriculturist and review )〕 With support and encouragement from Cockburn, he was elected to the seat of Burra in the South Australian House of Assembly and served from April 1890 to April 1896. He was a useful member, though he rarely entered into debates. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Hingston Lake」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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