Constituency : Aylesbury 1880-85, Biggleswade 1892-5
George took the second seat at Aylesbury from the Tories.
George was a cousin of the Duke of Bedford. He was educated at Harrow and Oxford where he suffered from myelitis. He became a journalist. He was a High Churchman.
In 1883 Gladstone appointed George parliamentary secretary to the Local Government Board. He was defeated in 1885.
In 1889 George became an alderman on London County Council.
George was a big admirer of Gladstone and published a biography of him in 1891.
In 1892 George was appointed under secretary of state for India. Rosebery moved him to the Home Office.
He died in 1919 aged 66.
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