Sir George Henry Dashwood, 5th Baronet was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1832 and 1865.
Background
Dashwood was the eldest son of Sir John Dashwood-King, 4th Baronet, and his wife Mary Ann Broadhead. Unlike his father, a Tory who resisted the Reform Bill, George was a progressive Whig and Liberal, making their relationship somewhat cool.
Education
He was educated at Eton College and Oxford University.
Career
He held that seat until 1835. Dashwood succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1849. He also sold off the contents of Halton House in 1849, and the estate itself in 1853.
Dashwood died at West Wycombe Park aged 71.
She subsequently built Street Paul"s Church at West Wycombe.
Membership
11th United Kingdom Parliament. 13th United Kingdom Parliament. 14th United Kingdom Parliament.
15th United Kingdom Parliament.
16th United Kingdom Parliament. 17th United Kingdom Parliament.
18th United Kingdom Parliament]
Sir John left politics in 1831, in the face of popular agitation for electoral Reform, and George stood for Parliament the following year, being returned as Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire. In 1837, he was returned for the borough of Wycombe, formerly his father"s seat, and remained one of its Members of Parliament until his death in 1865.