George McCredie

George McCredie (1859 – 4 February 1903) was an Australian politician.

He was born at Pyrmont, and attended Fort Street Public School before becoming an apprentice carpenter at the age of fourteen. He worked in northern Queensland for the Australasian Steam Navigation Company before returning to Sydney to work as a consulting engineer. After a world tour in 1883, he lived at Guildford by 1891, becoming an alderman on Prospect and Sherwood Municipal Council and later mayor. During that time he designed and built Linnwood his home at Guildford. In 1893 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Free Trade member for Central Cumberland, but he was defeated the following year. When bubonic plague struck Sydney in 1900, George McCredie was appointed by the Government to take charge of all quarantine activities in the Sydney area, beginning work on March 23, 1900. At the time of his appointment, McCredie was an architect and consulting engineer with offices in the Mutual Life of New York Building in Martin Place. McCredie's appointment was much criticised in Parliament, though it was agreed later that his work was successful. In 1900 McCredie was presented with a 'Victor of the Plague' commemorative shield. McCredie died at Guildford in 1903.^[1]

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