Background
He was born in Lindfield, Sussex the son of George Cole (2 May 1792 – 20 November 1853) and Jane Cole (c 1787 – 3 April 1861). They arrived in South Australia on 9 July 1839 on the Lysander.
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George Cole
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Not to be confused with his (probably unrelated) contemporary James William Cole
He was employed as City Valuator from around 1865. He was, like his father, a confirmed teetotaler, active in the Bible Christian Missionary Society and the Total Abstinence Society and important in the founding of Rechabites in South Australia. He was a lay preacher for the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Adelaide.
He fought for abolition of liquor and closing of railways on Sundays.
In the 1850s he lived next door to the Temperance Hall in Tynte Street, North Adelaide. Later at Lymington Cottage, Melbourne Street, North Adelaide.
Jessie Gravely Cole (29 September 1847 – 14 November 1870) married Arthur H. Scarfe ( – )
Annie Elizabeth Cole (29 April 1851 – 8 June 1878) married Review William Williams (c 1850 – 6 July 1913)
George Mitchell Cole (5 December 1854 – 21 February 1884) married Susan Ellen Chapman (16 July 1856 – 11 April 1942) on 11 August 1881.
Rosa Jane Cole (c 1859 – 21 October 1942) married Hannibal Lyne on 29 September 1880
Emma Tryphena Cole (25 October 1861 – 8 January 1926 in Washington) married John LeCornu jnr (c 1861 – 14 July 1948) on 12 December 1882.
Membership
He was a member of Parliament for the seats of Burra and Clare 1860–1862, with fellow teetotaler William Dale as his associate, and The Burra 1862–1866, when he resigned.
