George Fleetwood (Tavistock MP)

Sir George Fleetwood (1564 – 21 December 1620) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1586 and 1611.

Fleetwood was a younger son of Thomas Fleetwood of The Vache, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, and his second wife, Bridget Spring, daughter of Sir John Spring of Lavenham, Suffolk.

[1] Fleetwood married Katherine Denny, daughter of Henry Denny, dean of Chester, and his wife Honora Grey, daughter of William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton and Lady Mary Somerset on 19 April 1586.

According to the History of Parliament Online, she was "the relative and probably ward of Sir Francis Walsingham",[2] spymaster to Queen Elizabeth.

[1] His seventh son was James Fleetwood, Bishop of Worcester.