[4] George spent much of his childhood in the care of his maternal grandmother Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby.

[7] Through his possession of Sudeley Castle George was an important landowner in Gloucestershire, although his youth meant that he had not established himself as a political force.

[15] In 1649, after the end of the civil war, Parliament ordered the slighting of Sudeley Castle, to ensure that it could never again be used as a military post.

[19] In 1651 he corresponded with Charles II, raising hopes that he would again act as a royalist leader in Gloucestershire.

[21] He returned the following year and was convicted of manslaughter and burned in the hand 'a strange doom for a nobleman'.

[21] As he had a number of daughters but no male heir, he was succeeded by his younger brother William He married twice:[22] 1.