George Julius Brockman

George Julius Brockman (2 January 1850 – 29 August 1912) was a prominent explorer and pastoralist in the Gascoyne and Kimberley regions of Western Australia.

Born in 1850 at Guildford, George was the seventh son of Robert Brockman and brother of Charles Samuel Brockman. Brockman's father was a settler in the Lake Bamban district near Gingin. The family moved to Mimigarra, near Moore River while Brockman was still a boy then later to a property on the Greenough River.

Brockman left home at 16 years of age and rode south to Busselton and eventually took a job at Henty station near Bunbury.

The May River and Meda River were named in 1881 by Brockman during an expedition in the Kimberley area looking for grazing land north of the Fitzroy River. He named the May after the granddaughter of John Septimus Roe, Mary Matilda (May) Thomson, and the Meda after , an Admiralty surveying vessel that charted the coastline in the area including the river mouth in 1880. Brockman applied for a leasehold along the Meda which the government refused instead offering a lease for for 12 years rent free. He stocked the property with 1,100 ewes, which suffered through drought followed by floods.

Brockman acquired the Minilya Station in 1884 for £15,000,