George Lazenby (cabinetmaker)
George Lazenby was an early settler of Western Australia, known for his cabinetmaking business and for being a Methodist preacher. A native of Spaldington in the north of England, he visited the Swan River Colony on his brother's ship in 1831 and emigrated there soon after, arriving on the in January 1833. In the 1860s he built a house at Cardup, and established a flour mill and brick works—the latter continued in operation until the 1990s.
His elder daughter Hannah Boyd Lazenby married William Shakespeare Hall on 2 November 1868, and his younger daughter Jane Wesley Lazenby married Samuel John Rowe on 21 January 1883. Another daughter married W.T. King.
Lazenby died in June 1895 at his residence in Lake Street, Perth, and he was buried in the East Perth Cemeteries on 13 June.
