Early and Family Life
George Shenton was born in Perth, Western Australia on 4 March 1842, the eldest son of George Shenton Sr, a wealthy businessman who was Perth's first pharmacist. George Shenton Jnr was educated locally until 1855, when at the age of 13 he was sent to England to complete his education at the Wesleyan Collegiate Institute (Queen's College) in Taunton. In 1858 he returned to Perth, where he received experience working in a range of his father's businesses, including running his father's store in Geraldton, and managing the family's farm on the Greenough River.
On 4 November 1868, Shenton married Julia Theresa Eichbaum in a ceremony at Fremantle. They would have one son and nine daughters before her death in June 1887. To his great disappointment, his only son died in infancy.
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