Constituency : Kirkcaldy Burghs 1875-92
Sir George took over at Kirkcaldy after the death of Robert Reid.
George was educated at Hamilton Academy before embarking for India. In 1871 he became Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal and two years later quelled the Pabna uprising with a declaration of government support for their complaints which displeased the Secretary of State Lord Argyll.
In 1877 George expressed dissatisfaction with Hartington - "not the man to lead them to great progress" - at a public meeting in Dysart.
George strongly opposed Gladstone's policy on Egypt and welcomed the withdrawal from Sudan in 1885.
George proposed a Grand Committee for Scotland in 1882 arguing that it was "impossible for 650 members sitting together in the House of Commons to do the whole details of the work of the Three Kingdoms". In 1890 he called for "Territorial Standing Committees" with "such distinctive institutions, laws and nomenclature as are not understood by the more southern branches of the Anglian and Celtic races".
In 1887 George published a book on the problems of empire.
He died in 1892 aged 68.
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