George Ainsworth
George Frederick Ainsworth (20 June 1878 – 11 October 1950) was an Australian
Early years
Ainsworth was born in
Public servant
In 1915, Ainsworth was commissioned in the
Businessman
Ainsworth's rapid rise as a public servant was at least partly as a protégé of Billy Hughes, who was Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923, and whom he greatly admired. He resigned from the public service at the end of 1924 to enter the private sector as a business manager, first with the Melbourne-based motor-parts company Kellow-Falkiner, then as general manager with the Chrysler Corporation in New Zealand, and finally as general manager with Barnet Glass Rubber in Queensland, from which he resigned in 1935. He subsequently became State organiser for the United Australia Party, of which Billy Hughes was one of the founders.[1]
After incurring considerable financial losses through gambling on horse races, Ainsworth moved to
Death
Ainsworth died in Sydney's
References
Footnotes
Sources
- Gibbney, H.J. (1979). Ainsworth, George Frederick (1878–1950). Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. pp. 21–22.
- Mawson, Sir Douglas (1930). The Home of the Blizzard. London: Hodder and Stoughton. George F. Ainsworth's narrative, an account of his two years on Macquarie Island, takes up pages 334–398 in Mawson's book.