Constituency : Staffordshire North West 1885-6, Stoke-upon-Trent Stoke 1890-95
George won the new seat of Staffordshire North West.
George was the son of Frederick Leveson-Gower who stepped down as MP for Bodmin at the 1885 election. He was related to the Duke of Sutherland , Earl Granville and the Marquess of Northampton.He was educated at Eton and Oxford.
Gladstone, always eager to appoint young aristocrats , made George a junior whip in his third administration.
George was defeated in 1886 but returned in a by-election at Stoke in 1890. He was Comptroller of the Household under Gladstone and Rosebery. In 1895 he was defeated by a Liberal Unionist.
In 1890 George repeatedly raised the issue of persecution of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
George was chairman of the Home Counties Liberal Federation from 1905 to 1908 and a Commissioner of woods and forests from 1908 to 1924.
He died in 1951 aged 93.
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