George Doughty (politician)

Sir George Doughty JP (13 March 1854 – 27 April 1914) was a British ship-owner and politician from Grimsby in Lincolnshire.

[3] Standing as a member of the Liberal Party, Doughty was elected at the 1895 general election as the Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby, defeating the sitting Liberal Unionist MP Edward Heneage; by a narrow majority of just 181 votes (2.2%).

He resigned his seat on 21 July 1898 by taking the post of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds,[5] and at the resulting by-election he was re-elected on 2 August 1898 with an increased majority of 1,751 votes (21.5% of the total).

[6] On 16 August 1907 Doughty married Australian journalist and author Eugenia Stone[7] at the Catholic Church of St James, Manchester Square, London.

He had been in "indifferent health for some months" following an operation in New York while travelling back to England from British Columbia.