George Stuart Briner (5 April 1862 – 9 September 1920) was an Australian politician.
He was born inMorses Creek inVictoria to miner William Torents Briner and Mary Ann,née Whyatt. After attendingScotch College and theUniversity of Melbourne, he worked as a teacher, and arrived inNew South Wales in 1881, where he taught until 1891. In that year, he began work as a journalist for theGoulburn Evening Penny Post before moving toBellingen and editing theRaleigh Sun (1894–98). In 1901 he was elected to theNew South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member forRaleigh, representing theProgressive Party. Following that party's collapse in 1907 he was one of the few members re-elected as a "Former Progressive", and he spent the next ten years sitting as an independent before joining theNationalist Party in 1917. In 1920 he was elected as one of the members forOxley representing the newProgressive Party, a forerunner of theCountry Party, but he died atLewisham later that year. He had married Annie Mary Taylor in 1905.[1]
| New South Wales Legislative Assembly | ||
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| Preceded by | Member forRaleigh 1901–1920 | Abolished |
| New seat | Member forOxley 1920 Served alongside:Fitzgerald,Price | Succeeded by |