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Wyndham, George (1801 - 1870) |
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| Viticulturist and Agriculturalist | ||
| Born: 1801 Dinton, Wiltshire, England. Died: 24 December 1870 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. | ||
| George Wyndham settled near Branxton in the Hunter River valley, New South Wales, and began experimental farming with such crops as maize, wheat, hemp, mustard, castor oil, tobacco, millet, cape barley and the grape varieties Hermitage, Cabernet and Shiraz. |
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