George Bishop (civil servant)

Sir George Sidney Bishop CB OBE (15 October 1913 – 9 April 1999) was a British civil servant and businessman.

Bishop's first job was for a Quaker organisation in South Wales which assisted the unemployed through subsistence production.

On the outbreak of the second world war he moved to the Ministry of Food as a statistician, subsequently running its Emergency Services division.

After the war Bishop became a private secretary to ministers of food Ben Smith and John Strachey.

For the Royal Geographical Society, of which he was president 1983–87, he mounted a scientific expedition to the Kimberley area of Western Australia.