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George Westbrook
George Egerton Leigh Westbrook (1860–31 January 1939) was a Western Samoan businessman and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Council from 1924 until 1929. BiographyBorn in Camberwell in London England,[1] Westbrook sailed to New Zealand on the full-rigged ship Famenoth, before beginning to travel the Pacific.[2] He moved between Tahiti, the Marshall Islands and the Caroline Islands,[3] before settling in Samoa in 1891.[4] He became a shop keeper,[5] married a Samoan woman,[6] and was the Apia correspondent for the New Zealand Herald.[7] In January 1924 Westbrook successfully contested the first elections to the Samoan Legislative Council, becoming one of the first three elected members.[8] He was re-elected in the 1926 elections.[9] In 1928 Westbrook was declared bankrupt,[10] and he did not run for re-election in 1929. Like fellow elected members Olaf Frederick Nelson and Arthur Williams, he was a member of the anti-colonial Mau movement.[11] In 1935 he published an autobiographical book named Gods Who Die: The Story of Samoa's Greatest Adventurer about his travels around the Pacific in the late 19th century.[4] He died on 31 January 1939 at the age of 78.[3] References
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