11 Facts About Geoffrey Eagar

Geoffrey Eagar was an accountant and colonial politician and civil servant in New South Wales, Australia.

Edward left Australia in 1821, while Geoffrey Eagar was still an infant, to take a legal battle over the rights of freed convicts to London, and did not return.

Geoffrey Eagar worked as an accountant at the Bank of New South Wales from 1854 for around five years before resigning to accept an appointment to the New South Wales Legislative Council in September 1859.

Geoffrey Eagar resigned from the Council in November 1860, to contest the election for The Glebe, but he finished a distant 3rd.

Geoffrey Eagar was elected to the Legislative Assembly at the by-election in January 1863 for the seat of West Sydney.

Geoffrey Eagar was appointed Colonial Treasurer in the first Martin ministry in October 1863.

Geoffrey Eagar lost his seat at the 1864 election for West Sydney, and was unsuccessful at election for the Paterson.

Geoffrey Eagar was returned to the Legislative Assembly at the West Sydney by-election in July 1865, and in January 1866 was appointed Colonial Treasurer in the second Martin ministry, serving until the resignation of the ministry in October 1868.

Geoffrey Eagar lost his seat again at the 1869 election for West Sydney, and was unsuccessful at the Hastings, and Goldfields West.

Geoffrey Eagar died at his home in the Sydney suburb of Glebe Point, survived by his wife and three of their four children, Arthur, a bank manager, Ernest a civil servant and a daughter.

Geoffrey Eagar had a house in the Blue Mountains, opposite Eagar's Platform, now called Valley Heights railway station.