He was educated at Nottingham under Mr. Cudworth and was admitted at St John’s College, Cambridge on 3 May 1688.
He was defeated at the 1705 English general election and abandoned parliamentary ambitions while concentrating on local matters.
He supported the Government in all recorded divisions, except on the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts in 1719, when he was absent.
At the 1722 British general election he was returned as MP for Nottingham and appointed Storekeeper of the Ordnance in 1722 and held the post for the rest of his life.
[2] Of his surviving sons, William was a lawyer, Henry was a clergyman[1] and George jnr inherited Rempstone Hall.