Constituency : North Northamptonshire 1906-10
George took North Northamptonshire from the Tories as a Liberal-Labour candidate.
George started life as an agricultural labourer and smallholder. He became a pastor at an Evangelical Congregational Church in 1894. He was employed by the Eastern Counties Liberal Association as a speaker. He was an advanced Radical but still essentially a Gladstonian.
Not long after his election, George became the first president of the National Union of Agricultural Workers. His parliamentary contributions were mainly on land tenure; he supported the Land Tenure Bill of 1906 but felt it did not go far enough.
In January 1910 George was defeated by the Conservatives. He stood for Faversham in December 1910 and Newmarket in a by-election in 1913.
George was elected to Peterborough town council in 1912 and was mayor from 1916 to 1918.
By 1918, George had switched to Labour and tried to unseat the Liberal Francis Acland at Camborne where neither candidate had the coupon. By 1922, he had returned to the Liberal fold and contested Peterborough where he came third. In 1923 he contested Warwick and Leamington where he came second to Anthony Eden as he did in 1924, the withdrawal of a Labour candidate not doing him much good. In 1925 he contested a by-election at Bury St Edmunds where Walter Giunness the Minister of Agriculture had to re-contest the seat but made little impression on the majority. His final contest was at Harborough in 1929 where he came third.
He died in 1943 aged 79.
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