George Warren

Who was George Warren?

Sir George Warren KB, of Poynton Lodge in Cheshire, was a British Member of Parliament.

Warren set out initially on an army career, being promoted to Captain in 1756. In May 1758 he eloped to Edinburgh with a rich heiress, Jane Revel, and married her; he then retired from the army, and in December of the same year was elected to Parliament as member for Lancaster in return for a promise that at the next election he would contribute up to £2,000 towards finding a seat for the son of Lancaster's other MP, Francis Reynolds. He immediately began a campaign to have himself made a Knight of the Bath, an honour to which he believed his new wealth now entitled him, but the King angrily rejected the proposal when it was put to him by Prime Minister Newcastle. However, once George III succeeded in 1760, Warren attached himself to Bute's party and secured his KB the following year.

Warren's rapacious attempts to enlarge his fortune made him unpopular throughout Lancashire and Cheshire.