George Macartney

George David Macartney (1841 - 2 June 1878) was an Australian politician. He was a member for Gippsland South in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1869 to 1871 and 1877 to 1878.

Biography Macartney was born in Armagh, Ireland, and he married a woman named Anna Maria in Ireland in December 1862. He studied at Dublin University completing a Bachelor of Arts in 1863. He then moved to Ontario, Canada, where he was ordained as a deacon of the Church of England in 1864 serving for a year before moving to Melbourne, Australia, where he served as a Minister in Gippsland and joined the Gippsland Freemasons. In December 1866 he was ordained as a priest of St. James's Church in Melbourne. and he resigned from the Church that year and was admitted into the Victorian Bar in 1869. nevertheless he served in the Assembly until 1871 when he moved to Fiji. He moved to Emerald Hill at some point where his wife lived with him again but he continued to behave abusively especially when drunk and his wife filed a restraining order against him. In September 1877 his wife filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery, alleging Macartney had an affair with the families live-in governess, and ill-treatment since the year 1873. He was buried in St. Kilda Cemetery.