George Frederick Beltz, KH (9 August 1774 – 23 October 1841) was an English genealogist, appointed Lancaster Herald in 1822.
[1] He became gentleman usher of the scarlet rod of the Order of the Bath and Brunswick Herald in 1814, in succession to Sir Isaac Heard.
In 1813, he was secretary to the mission sent to invest Alexander I of Russia with the Order of the Garter, and in 1814 he performed a similar office at the investiture of Francis I of Austria.
Beltz, who was an executor for the widow of David Garrick, wrote a memoir of Mrs. Garrick in the Gentleman's Magazine for November 1822, and he contributed papers on archaeological subjects to the Gentleman's Magazine (1822), to the Retrospective Review (1823), and the volumes, xxv., xxvii., and xxviii.
He was attacked by his last illness while on a tour on the continent, and died at Basel on 28 October 1841, aged 67, and was interred in the cemetery of the parish of St. Peter there.