George Fitzwilliam (28 February 1756 – 6 May 1786) was a British Member of Parliament.

Biography

Fitzwilliam was the younger son of

William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam William FitzWilliam, 3rd Earl FitzWilliam (15 January 1719/20 – 10 August 1756) was a British peer, nobleman, and politician. He was the son of John Fitzwilliam, 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam by his wife Anne, daughter of John Stringer of Sutton cum L ...

, by his wife Anne, sister of

Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, (13 May 1730 – 1 July 1782; styled The Hon. Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1733, Viscount Higham between 1733 and 1746, Earl of Malton between 1746 and 1750 and The Marquess of Rocking ...

. He was educated at

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and

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and served in the 1st Troop,

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. His brother William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam suggested him as a candidate for

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at the general election in 1780, but his uncle Rockingham refused to contribute to the costs. Instead he replaced Sir Lawrence Dundas in a by-election at Richmond (Fitzwilliam's sister Charlotte was married to Dundas's son

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). In the House of Commons he voted against parliamentary reform in May 1783, and as a result his brother Lord Fitzwilliam was dissuaded from nominating him for

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at a by-election later that year and at the general election in 1784, when he left the House. There is no record of his having spoken in Parliament. He died, unmarried, two years later.Mary M. Drummond
FITZWILLIAM, Hon. George (1757-86).
in ''

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: the House of Commons 1754-1790'' (1964).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fitzwilliam, George 1757 births 1786 deaths Younger sons of earls People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge British MPs 1780–1784 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies