Sir George Hodges Knox CMG

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 (17 December 1885 – 11 July 1960) was an Australia

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n politician. The City of Knox

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 is named after him.

Knox was born in the Melbourne

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 suburb of Prahran

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 in 1885 and educated at Scotch College Melbourne. He was the son of William Knox, who had been a member of the Victorian Legislative Council

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 between 1897 and 1901, and the member for Kooyong

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 in the House of Representatives.

Knox began his working life as an electrical engineer. He married Kathleen Purves MacPherson in 1909. Soon after, he moved to Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield, Victoria

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 to establish an orchard. He joined the Australian Imperial Force

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 in 1909 and served during World War I

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. He left the army in 1918 and divorced in 1919. In 1920 he moved to Ferntree Gully

Ferntree Gully, Victoria

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. He married Ada Victoria Harris in 1921. He was elected to the Fern Tree Gully Shire Council in 1923.

He won the Victorian Legislative Assembly

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 seat for Upper Yarra in 1927 for the Nationalist Party. He became Speaker

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for the Victorian Parliament in 1942 and remained there until 1947. Between 1945 and 1960 he held the seat of Scoresby.