George Tilson

George Tilson (c. 1672 – 17 November 1738) was a British civil servant, long-serving Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office.

George Tilson was the grandson of Henry Tilson, Bishop of Elphin; his brother Christopher was MP for Cricklade. From 1703 to 1706 Tilson was Secretary to the British envoy to Prussia, Baron Raby.[1] From 1710 until his death in 1738 he was Under-Secretary for the Northern Department, serving under a succession of Tory and Whig Secretaries of State: Bolingbroke, William Bromley, Townshend, James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, Sunderland and Lord Carteret.[2] As Thomas Carlyle put it, Tilson's name "often turns up [...] in the [...] extinct Paper-heaps of that time".[3]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1735.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Horn, D. B., British Diplomatic Representatives, 1689-1789, p. 104
  2. ↑ Romney Sedgwick, The House of Commons, 1715-1754: the history of Parliament, 1970, vol 2, p. 469.
  3. ↑ Carlyle, Thomas, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederic the Great, 1858, Vol 2, p. 123
  4. ↑ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 28 October 2010.

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