George Richard Addis, was born in Victoria to a family from Herefordshire. In Victoria, the family farmed shire horses and had a transport business. George Addis trained as a jeweller in the eastern states and then moved to Tasmania where he displayed his craft in a colonial exhibition in Launceston in 1891-2. He then moved to Western Australia in 1894 and set up shop in the town of Boulder in 1893 and then later in Kalgoorlie where he displayed his noted collection of nuggets as well as his jewellery. He retired in 1911 to a farm he owned in Tenterden, a small town over 300km south east of Perth where he died circa 1937.
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