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| first_name = George
| name = Mott
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| image = File:Mott,_George.jpg
| birth_date = 1831
| death_date = 1906
| address = Morningside, Albury, Murray River, Victoria
| occupation = business
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL = 1866.02.06
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ASL, AI local secretary
| left =
| clubs =
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== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===

=== House Notes ===
proposed 1866.02.01 as local secretary<br /><br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
journalist, print shop owner, mayor of Albury 1868<br />George Henry Mott,<br />born in Hammersmith (London) on 13 May 1831, came to Australia in 1853, working for the Melbourne Argus and the Melbourne<br />Morning Herald. In 1854 Mott moved to Castlemaine in the central Victorian goldfields where he edited the Herald-owned<br />Mount Alexander Mail. In 1855 Mott moved to Beechworth, where he became partner in and editor of the Ovens and Murray<br />Advertiser, a paper founded a year earlier by Richard Warren. In mid-1856 George Mott struck out on his own when he founded The Border Post in Albury........In January 1863 Mott decided to move to Beechworth and to pursue his fortunes in that thriving goldmining community....Mott’s property included of a ten-acre vineyard with 3,000 vines....In 1862 he had produced 120 gallons of wine, with a<br />harvest worth 400 gallons expected for 1863.....With three papers in Albury, Beechworth and Chiltern, Mott could claim to own ‘the largest country newspaper in the Australian colonies’, steam-printed with an output of ‘2000 impressions per hour’ and a circulation of 4,000 copies a week, effectively covering northeastern Victoria and the southern Riverina.....
== Publications ==
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