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Sir George More (28 November 1553 – 16 October 1632) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1625.
He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.A. Davidson and R. Sgroi, 'More, Sir George (1553-1632), of Loseley, nr. Guildford, Surr. and Blackfriars, London', in A. Thrush and J.P. Ferris (eds), The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1603-1629 (from Cambridge University Press, 2010), History of Parliament online. He left Oxford after failing his academic exercises, and was admitted to Inner Temple in 1574. He was a Justice of the Peace for Surrey and Sussex and Deputy Lieutenant for Surrey.
Among his other roles, More was treasurer and receiver general to James I's son, Henry, Prince of Wales, and Chancellor of the Order of the Garter. He was subsidy and loan commissioner, muster commissioner, and commissioner for recusants and seminaries for Surrey. He was a verderer of Windsor Forest and constable of Farnham Castle.
In April 1607 the Earl of Dorset wrote to More hoping he could influence the Countess of Cumberland to arrange the marriage of her daughter Lady Anne Clifford to his grandson Richard Sackville.J.C. Jeaffreson (ed.), 'The Manuscripts of William More Molyneux, Esquire, of Loseley Park', Seventh Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Part I (HMSO, London 1879), Appendix, pp. 596-681, at p. 668 (Internet Archive).
He married secondly Constance Michell, widow of Richard Knight, esquire, and daughter and co-heir of John Michell the younger of Stammerham (died 1555), near Horsham, West Sussex, by whom he had no issue.R.J.W. Swales and A.K.D. Hawkyard, 'Michell, John II (d.1555), of Stammerham, Suss.', in S.T. Bindoff (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558 (from Boydell and Brewer 1982), History of Parliament Online.
Marriages and issue
More married first Anne Poynings (died 19 November 1590), (daughter of Adrian Poynings of Burnegate, Dorset and Mary West), by whom he had four sons and five daughters:'Crophill, no. 17: George More', in D. Richardson, ed. K.G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 4 vols (Salt Lake City, 2011), II, pp. 1-7, at pp. 5-6 (Google).
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