Career
He was the eldest child of the herald Henry Street George and lived at Woodford in Essex. They had six children. At the Restoration he was appointed Somerset Herald.
The seniority was reversed when in 1686, he was appointed Garter on the death of William Dugdale.
In 1690 he appointed a deputy to deliver the Garter to a Continental recipient, but the following year he undertook the task himself as William III was to attend the ceremony. In 1693 Gregory King acted as his deputy to deliver the Garter to the Elector of Saxony.
Their only daughter died in infancy. He died at the College of Arms on 6 March 1703 and was buried at Woodford.
His manuscripts were purchased by Peter Le Neve, Norroy King of Arms.
According to Noble, ‘he died more esteemed as a good, and more respected as an elegant man, than praised for his knowledge’.
