George Sim | |
Constituency Am1: | Carpentaria |
Assembly1: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start1: | 11 April 1896 |
Term End1: | 25 March 1899 |
Predecessor1: | George Phillips |
Successor1: | James Forsyth |
Birth Date: | 1847 |
Birth Place: | Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
Death Date: | 17 May 1922 (aged 74 or 75) |
Death Place: | Wynnum, Queensland, Australia |
Restingplace: | Toowong Cemetery |
Birthname: | George Charles Sim |
Nationality: | English Australian |
Party: | Labour Party |
Occupation: | Journalist |
George Charles Sim (1847 – 17 May 1922) was a journalist, and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.[1]
Sim was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, to parents David Sim and his wife Margaret (née Anderson). After receiving his education in Bradford, he arrived in Australia where he became a prospector and mining expert in 1870. He then became a journalist for the Carpentaria Times before moving to Brisbane to continue his career in journalism.[1]
Sim, after unsuccessfully contesting the seat of Burke in 1890, won the seat of Carpentaria in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1896. He held the seat for three years before being defeated in 1899.[1]
Sim died at Wynnum in 1922[1] and was buried in the Toowong Cemetery.[2]