Background
George Shee was the eldest son of Sir George Shee, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Maria Crisp.
George Shee was the eldest son of Sir George Shee, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Maria Crisp.
He was educated at Sandy Mount, near Dublin, and Street John"s College, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1806 and Master of Arts
In 1811. He was admitted to Gray"s Inn in 1802. On 3 February 1825 he succeeded his father in the Shee Baronetcy, and lived at Dunmore House, Galway. He was Justice of the Peace and Doctorate.L. for Galway, and High Sheriff of County Galway in 1828.
From November 1830 to 1834 Shee served in the Whig Government as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
He was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Prussia at Berlin from 1834 to 1835, Minister Plenipotentiary to Württemberg at Stuttgart from 1835 to 1844, and a diplomat to Baden from 1841 to 1844. Shee also wrote articles on foreign policy for The Globe.
He died without heir on 25 January 1870 in London.