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Prince George
Prince George city (1991 pop. 69,653), central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako rivers. It is a railroad division point and a distribution center for a lumber region. There are sawmills, pulp mills, chemical plants, and an oil refinery. In 1807, Simon Fraser of ...
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Sir George Prevost
Sir George Prevost , 1767-1816, British soldier and governor in chief of Canada (1811-15). He held several administrative posts in the West Indies before becoming (1808) lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia. In 1811 he became governor in Canada and was conspicuous for his conciliation of the French Ca...
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George Grenville
George Grenville 1712-70, British statesman, brother of Earl Temple. He entered Parliament in 1741, held several cabinet posts, and in 1763 became chief minister. His prosecution (1763) of John Wilkes provoked political reformers, and his attempt to tax the North American colonies internally thro...
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Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis , 1891-1969, British field marshal. His long military career began with service in World War I, followed by a period (1934-38) in the North-West Frontier Province, India. In World War II he directed the retreats at Dunkirk (1940) an...
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William McDougall
William McDougall 1822-1905, Canadian leader in the movement for Canadian confederation, b. Ontario. He was elected (1858) to the Legislative Assembly, and in 1864 he entered the "great coalition" ministry led by John A. Macdonald and George Brown. He was a delegate to the two Canadian conferen...
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Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 1860-1943, Canadian author, b. New Brunswick. He was the first Canadian to be knighted for his work as a writer. He wrote over 67 works, of which the best-known are Orion (1880), Divers Tones (1886), Selected Poems (1936), and other volumes of lyrics and idy...
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George Horace Lorimer
George Horace Lorimer , 1867-1937, American editor, b. Louisville, Ky. After working for the Armour Packing Company (1887-95) and as a wholesale grocer, he went to work as a newspaper reporter in Boston. He became editor in chief of the Saturday Evening Post in 1899, and until 1936 his guidance wa...
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George Will
George Will (George Frederick Will), 1941-, American political columnist, b. Champaign, Illinois. He attended Trinity College (B.A., 1962), Oxford (1962-64), and Princeton Univ. (PhD., 1964). In 1973, while he was an editor of the conservative National Review magazine, Will's editorial columns be...
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George Browne Post
George Browne Post 1837-1913, American architect, b. New York City, grad. New York Univ., 1858, in civil engineering, and studied architecture with R. M. Hunt. He was one of the leaders in a notable group that helped regenerate American architecture in the period from 1875 to 1890. A member of the ...
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Henry George
Henry George 1839-97, American economist, founder of the single tax movement, b. Philadelphia. Of a poor family, his formal education was cut short at 14, and in 1857 he emigrated to California; there he worked at various occupations before turning to newspaper writing in San Francisco. George's ...
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