1063 George Salis-Schwabe

Constituency : Middleton  1885-6

George  won  the  new  seat  of  Middleton.

George's   father  was  a  German  Jew  who   owned  a  calico  printing  firm . He  later  converted  to  Unitarianism.They  had  a  huge  mill  in  the  town. He  was  educated  at  University  College  School, London  and  London  University. He   joined  the  army   and  became  a  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  Sixteenth  Lancers. He  served  in  the  Anglo-Zulu  Wars  and  was  awarded  the  Medal  with  Clasp.

When  Gladstone  made  his  intentions  clear  as  to  Home  Rule  George  told  him  he  was  eager  to support  government  policy  but  he  had  made  anti-Home  Rule  pledges  to  his  constituents  and  thought  the  same  was  true  of  all  Lancashire  Liberals.

George  thought  that  a  re-organisation  of  the  army  could  reduce  the  enormous  estimates in  1886.

George  joined  the  Liberal  Unionists  but  did  not  defend  his  seat.

George  was  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  Royal  Chelsea  Hospital  from  1898  to  1903.

He  died  in  1907  aged  63.