08. The Hon George Fife Angas 1789 [237]

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Angus in Cumberland

Family grave of George Fife Angas, wife Rosetta, their daughter Mary Ann, son William Henry and sons-in-law James Johnson and John Hannay. These graves were originally in the Angas Baptist Chapel but were moved to the Angas General Cemetery on the 23rd of August 1929 when the chapel was closed.

The information in this tree after G. F. Angas was passed to me from Jeanette in Australia.

THE HON. GEORGE FIFE ANGAS ( was born 01 May 1789 in Newcastle upon Tyne, and died 15 May 1879 in Lindsay House, Angaston, South Australia.

Link to George Angas [237] in the main Angus tree

He married ROSETTA FRENCH 18 Apr 1812 in Hutton, Essex, England. She was born 15 Jan 1793 in St Giles, Cripplegate, London, England, and died 11 Jan 1867 in Linsay Park, Angaston, South Australia.

THE HON. GEORGE FIFE ANGAS: Was one of the founders of Sunday Schools. By 1816 the Sunday Schools of Tyneside became a Union with George as secretary. He afterwards went to South Australia in 1850 and became the Hon G F Angas of the Upper House and a member of the legislative Council. He organised the South Australia Company, The Bank of South Australia and other companies. His foresight was largely instrumental in winning New Zealand for Great Britian.

Had four daughters and two sons after John Howard. (Michael Wilson)

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From The Australian Dictionary of Biography

ANGAS, GEORGE FIFE (1789-1879), merchant, banker, landowner and philanthropist, was born on 1 May 1789 at Newcastle upon Tyne,England, the fifth son and youngest of the seven children of Caleb Angas (1742-1831), coachmaker, and his second wife Sarah Jameson, the widowed daughter of John Lindsay, tobacconist, of Morpeth, Northumberland. His father was a native of Hexham, Northumberland, where his Scottish forbears had settled about 1650. In infancy George Fife suffered a violent illness that affected his nervous system and left him far from robust...

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From Wikipedia

George Fife Angas (1 May 1789 – 15 May 1879), was a businessman, Member of Parliament and played a significant part in the formation of South Australia.

Angas was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the fifth son and youngest of seven children of Caleb Angas, a successful coach builder and ship owner.

After his mother's death, he received his education at a boarding school and at age 15 became an apprentice coachbuilder under his father's direction. Four years later he went

to London to gain further experience and returned to Newcastle in 1809 where he worked as a supervisor for his father's business.

He married Rosetta French in 1812.Over the next 20 years Angas steadily developed his business, spending time in Honduras.

Angas came from a religious household, and as a religious person became a secretary of the Newcastle Sunday School Union.

He was asked to stand for Parliament on two occasions but declined partly due to reasons of poor health. He played a large part in the

founding of the National Provincial Bank of England (which exists today after several mergers as NatWest) and sat as a director on

its first board...