Constituency : North West Norfolk 1900-12
George took over from Joseph Arch at North West Norfolk after a fairly close contest with the Liberal Unionists.
George was the son of a bootmaker from Lincolnshire . He started out as a clerk in a laeather merchants and rose to be a partner in the company. It became the Norvic shoe company. He brought mass production to shoemaking which provoked a large strike in 1897. He was magnanimous enough to sub one of the leaders when his strike pay didn't come through. He was a Baptist who organised the passive resistance movement towards paying church rates.
George was a strong supporter of technical and secondary education. He was chairman of the Norwich School Board from 1890 until its abolition in 1903. He supported temperance and Sunday school attendance.
George was knighted in 1907.
He died in 1912 of lung cancer aged 72.
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