George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe

George Bubb Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe PC (1691 – 28 July 1762) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1761.

He addressed an adulatory verse letter to Walpole in 1726, in which he praised loyalty as the supreme political virtue.

[2] Enormously rich, he became a friend of Frederick, Prince of Wales, who took advantage of their acquaintance to obtain loans that helped clear his debts, and, on being thrown out of St James's Palace by his father, King George II, moved into a London house belonging to Dodington.

[4] His house at Hammersmith, known as 'La Trappe' (an ironic reference to a Trappist monastery) was the focus of a lively political and cultural salon of supporters of Frederick, Prince of Wales whose palace at Kew was located just across the river.

In 1761, following the accession of Frederick's son to the throne as George III, he was created Baron Melcombe.

Rodger describes Dodington as an "indefatigable schemer" on behalf of his friends and interests of the time.