Constituency : Grimsby 1895-1910, 1910-12 ( from 1898 Liberal Unionist ) 1912-4 ( Conservative )
George unseated the Liberal Unionist defector Edward Heneage at Grimsby by 181 votes.
George was a local man educated at a Wesleyan school in the town. He started working life as a joiner but became a ship owner and merchant. He built an ice factory in the town. He also had interests in whaling . He was heavily involved in local politics and was twice mayor. He was a Methodist lay preacher. He owned the Grimsby Evening Telegraph.
In 1896 George called for a British cruiser off the coast of Iceland to protect British trawlers from being harrassed by a Danish gunboat.
In 1898 George himself went over to the Liberal Unionists and offered himself up for re-election at a by-election. He was returned with a majority of 1,751 votes.
George was returned unopposed in 1900 and withstood the Liberal landslide in 1906. However he was unseated in January 1910. He won the seat back in December.
George was knighted in 1904. In 1907 he went on a tour of India.
In 1909 George claimed in Parliament that Germany had carried out a secret navel exercise using airships over the North Sea
He died in 1914 aged 60.
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