Constituency : Bath 1906-10
George was the other Liberal victor at Bath.
George was a banker's son from London. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge where he had the patronage of Lord Acton.
George supported female suffrage. He was concerned at Turkish actions in Macedonia and Armenia and asked a number of questions about them. He also introduced a bill to ban barmaids on the grounds they were an extra inducement to enter public houses.
George was defeated, along with Donald Maclean in 1910. Unlike Maclean, he stayed put in December but could not regain the seat, the numbers staying very similar. He stood at the Reading by-election in 1913.
In 1911 George became editor of the Contemporary Review. During the war he was active in the Union of Democratic Control.
From 1922 to 1925 George was President of the Historical Association. He was President of the National Peace Council from 1933 to 1936. In the latter year he was elected to the Liberal Party Council.
From 1898 onwards , George published a series of historical works mainly about diplomatic history despite never holding an academic post. His work has been criticised as too pro-German.
George is the third of our MPs to survive into my lifetime, dying in 1968 aged 94.
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