George Egerton Leigh Westbrook (1860–31 January 1939) was a Western Samoan businessman and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Council from 1924 until 1929.
Biography Born in Camberwell in London England,The Turnbull Library Record, p19 Westbrook sailed to New Zealand on the full-rigged ship Famenoth, before beginning to travel the Pacific.In the South Seas Evening Post, 1 October 1936 He moved between Tahiti, the Marshall Islands and the Caroline Islands, before settling in Samoa in 1891.G.E.L. Westbrook: Author of "Gods That Die" Pacific Islands Monthly, November 1935, p19 He became a shop keeper,With the Parliamentary Papalangi New Zealand Free Lance, 28 April 1920 married a Samoan woman,Personalities and Pasts in Samoa Samoanische Zeitung, 12 August 1927 and was the Apia correspondent for the New Zealand Herald.The Gaudin Case Press Association, 4 January 1915
In January 1924 Westbrook successfully contested the first elections to the Samoan Legislative Council, becoming one of the first three elected members.Lauofo Meti (2002) Samoa: The Making of the Constitution, National University of Samoa, p18 He was re-elected in the 1926 elections.Meti, p19 In 1928 Westbrook was declared bankrupt,Meeting of Creditors Samoanische Zeitung, 14 September 1928 and he did not run for re-election in 1929. Like fellow elected members Olaf Frederick Nelson and Arthur Williams, he was a member of the anti-colonial Mau movement.Samoan deportations New Zealand Herald, 27 December 1927
In 1935 he published an autobiographical book named Gods Who Die: The Story of Samoa's Greatest Adventurer about his travels around the Pacific in the late 19th century.
He died on 31 January 1939 at the age of 78.Death of G.E.L. Westbrook Pacific Islands Monthly, February 1939, p4
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