Constituency : Southport 1885-6, 1899-1900
George won the new seat of Southport.
George was the son of a Cambridgeshire surgeon. He was actually born George Coombe but changed to his wife's surname. She was the daughter of the former Blackburn MP James Pilkington. George was privately educated and trained for medicine at Guy's. He practised medicine in Southport from 18970 to 1884 in a variety of roles. He was Mayor of Southport from 1884 to 1885. He was also a director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and the Manchester and County Bank. He was an Anglican who was against "ritualistic practices " in the Church.
George was defeated in 1886. He became a councillor and alderman on Lancashire County Council and won the seat back at a by-election in 1899. He was defeated again in 1900.
George made one parliamentary contribution, raising the state of the field hospitals during the Boer War.
George was knighted in 1893.
He died in 1916 aged 67.
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