Constituency : Reading 1892-5, 1898-1904
George took his father's old seat from the Tories.
George was the son of the biscuit manufacturer and MP of the same name. He was mayor of Reading in 1889-90.
George was defeated in 1895 but regained the seat in a by-election in 1898 after an unsuccessful attempt at Wokingham earlier in the year.
George resigned his seat in 1904 due to losing his hearing. He declined a peerage.
George gave a £50,000 endowment fund to Reading University College for new classrooms and laboratories.
He died in 1913 aged 62.
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