Background
George Tilson was the grandson of Henry Tilson, Bishop of Elphin. His brother Christopher was Member of Parliament for Cricklade.
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George Tilson
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Career
From 1703 to 1706 Tilson was Secretary to the British envoy to Prussia, Baron Raby. 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. As Thomas Carlyle put it, Tilson"s name "often turns up in the extinct Paper-heaps of that time".
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1735.
Membership
Royal Society.
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Born
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Died
November 17, 1738 (aged 66) -
Nationality
British