George Richard Bethell (March 1849 – 3 December 1919) was a

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officer and

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politician. Bethell was born at

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, the son of William Froggatt Bethell. He joined the Royal Navy and served in the Egyptian war. In 1881 he was a lieutenant student at the

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. He reached the rank of Commander and at the 1885 general election he was elected

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(MP) for

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. In June 1899 he was authorized to assume the rank of

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. He fell out with his constituents over his hostility to the government's South African policy, and the Holderness Conservative Association in February 1900 voted that he had "alienated the confidence of the party which returned him at the last election, and that it is impossible to accord him their support in the future." He did not stand for the

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held in October that year. On 28 June 1919, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of the

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, but died towards the end of the year. He lived at Rise Park, Hull, and 43, Curzon Street, London and in 1893 he acquired

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Hall,

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