Photograph: copy of news image of George Minto, c. 1870s

Historical information

Murray Comrie Collection.

George Minto (b.1824 in Harwick, Scotland) was engineer at the Flour Mill in Tarnagulla, was Mayor of Tarnagulla Borough Council for a time and was engineer of the Shire of Marong for twenty years. For
13 years he occupied the position of surveyor to the Bendigo City Council. In his later life he lived in Kangaroo Flat. Whilst living there, on the 28th November 1914, he died, aged 90 and a half years.

This photograph is a reasonable image created from a historic news source (unknown). Copy probably made by Murray Comrie in the 1970s.

Physical description

Monochrome photograph, being copy of a news clipping with image of George Minto. Printed caption 'The Late Mr. George Minto, Jun. (Bartlett Bros, photo)'.



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