Constituency : Eccles 1906-18
George took Eccles from the Tories.
George was from Southport. He was educated at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities. He became a physician and assistant to the Professor of Midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. He was also a barrister. He was mayor of Southport in 1897. He stood for Southport in 1892 and Chatham in 1895.
George was in favour of the abolition of the Lords. In a debate in 1907 he made the point that "if the House of Lords always acted impartially , so far from enjoying the regard of both parties, it would now be sharing the hostility of both... To one great party in the State the House of Lords is an object of hostility unmingled with respect; to the other it is an object of contempt tempered with a recognition of its utility for Party purposes".
George was knighted in 1909.
George acted as medical advisor to the Ministry of Munitions on chemical warfare. His son Thomas was killed in 1917.
George stood down in 1918.
He died in 1937 aged 72.
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