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'''Gerald Spring''' (1 July 1830 – 9 November 1888)<ref name=adb/> was an Australian politician, member of the [[New South Wales Legislative Assembly]] and Secretary for Lands in the 1880s.

Spring was born in [[Castlemaine, County Kerry]], [[Ireland]]. He was the youngest child of Francis Spring and his wife Catherine, ''née'' Fitzgerald.,<ref name=adb>
{{Australian Dictionary of Biography
 |first=G. P. |last=Walsh
 |title=Spring, Gerald (1830–1888)
 |id2=spring-gerald-4630
 |accessdate=1 September 2013}}</ref> and a descendant of the [[Anglo-Irish]] [[Spring family]].
Gerald Spring arrived in [[New South Wales]] around 1853.<ref name=adb/>
Spring became chief constable at [[Dubbo, New South Wales]] in 1862 and a sheep inspector for [[Coonabarabran, New South Wales]] in 1865.<ref name=adb/>

Spring was elected as member for the [[Electoral district of Wellington (New South Wales)|district of Wellington]] in 1869 for a three-year term.<ref name=adb/> On 4 December 1882, he was elected to the seat of [[Electoral district of Young|Young]] and held the seat until 26 January 1887.<ref>{{cite NSW Parliament |id=622 |former=Yes |title=Mr Gerald Spring (1830–1888) |accessdate=23 May 2019}}</ref> Spring was Secretary for Lands from December 1885 to February 1886.<ref>{{cite Australasia|Spring, Gerald}}</ref>

On 27 August 1867 Spring married Jane ''née'' Watt; their son [[David Spring]], also became a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.<ref name=adb/>
On 9 November 1888 Spring died of [[tuberculosis]] at his property Moorong near [[Young, New South Wales]], and was buried in the [[Church of England]] cemetery at Young.<ref name=adb/>

His son, Thomas Spring, was a candidate for the seat of [[Electoral district of Cootamundra|Cootamundra]] in the [[Candidates of the 1913 New South Wales state election|1913 New South Wales state election]].<ref>{{cite news|date=3 October 1913|title=The Men for the Country.|volume=XXV|page=5|newspaper=[[The Sydney Stock and Station Journal]]|issue=54|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article125342887|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=4 July 2021}}</ref>

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