George Wyndham (winemarker)

George Wyndham
John Wyndham, June 1869
Personal information
Born(1801-06-20)20 June 1801
Dinton, Wiltshire, England
Died24 December 1870(1870-12-24) (aged 69)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1820–1821Cambridge University
Source: CricketArchive, 31 March 2013

George Wyndham (20 June 1801 – 24 December 1870) was an English farmer, wine-grower and pastoralist; he is famous for having established the Wyndham wineries and his estate Dalwood in the Hunter Valley, where he planted Australia's first commercial Shiraz vineyard.[1] He played first-class cricket in England in his youth.

  1. ^ McKinney, Judith Wright (1967). "Wyndham, George (1801–1870)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 2. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 24 November 2016.