George Gordon McCrae

George Gordon McCrae was born on 29 May 1833 in Leith, Scotland, the son of the painter Georgiana McCrae. With his mother and brothers, he landed in 1841 at Port Phillip, where his father had settled two years earlier. A surveyor, a clerk with a merchant and then a bank employee, he entered the Victorian civil service in 1854 and left it in 1893. A friend of Gordon, Kendall and Marcus Clarke, he married Augusta Helen Brown in 1871, who bore him six children, among them the poet Hugh McCrae. He died on 15 August 1927 in Hawthorn, near Melbourne.

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