Constituency : Launceston 1906-18 , Cornwall North 1918-24
George took over from Sir John Moulton at Launceston.
George was privately educated then became an apprentice engineer at the Royal Aresnal, Woolwich. He went to UNiversity College, London on a scholarship. He then joined a company that made funicular lifts . In 1880 he set up in private practice in Birmingham then in 1887 set up an intellectual property firm in partnership with Dugald Clerk. He lectured in steam and mechanical engineeering at Birmingham Institute. He stayed in both business areas and in 1911 set up a New York office with Thomas Edison.
George was a leading parliamentary authority on patents.
George was knighted in 1911.
George served in the Ministry of Munitions during the war. He visited the trenches in 1915 . He was also a commissioner for the dilution of Labour in 1917.
George was unopposed as a Coalition Liberal in 1918 and 1922 and easily held off a Conservative challenge in 1923. He was defeated in 1924.
In 1929 George defected to Labour and was almost immediately raised to the peerage as Baron Marks.
George was chair of two of the gramophone companies that merged to form EMI in 1931.
He died in 1938 aged 80.
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