Constituency : Barnstaple 1885-92
George replaced Viscount Lymington and a Tory as Barnstaple was reduced to a single member seat.
George was a minister's son from Honiton. He attended Honiton Grammar School where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were successive headmasters. He became a barrister. He wrote a number of legal reference works such as A Complete County Court Practice. He was Recorder of Poole.
George went over to the Liberal Unionists after Gladstone's concessions on Irish MPs at Westminster failed to assuage his concerns.
George stood down in 1892.
George was keen on tricycling.
He died in 1906 aged 61.
No comments:
Post a Comment