Sir George Harnage, 1st Baronet (1767–1836) was an English businessman and a director of the Bank of England.
He was born George Blackman and changed his name in 1821 so that he could inherit the ancestral home of his wife, Mary (née Harnage).
Following his bankruptcy on 15 November 1823,[3] his sudden appearance in The London Gazette "was like a thunderbolt to the mercantile world, where his credit had so long stood unimpeached.
There is a painting of Harnage by John Hoppner in the Bank of England Museum, London.
Her father, Henry Harnage (1739-1826) of Belswardyne in Shropshire had served as major of the 62nd Foot Regiment, under General John Burgoyne and was severely wounded at the Battle of Freeman's Farm on 19 September 1777 during the American Revolutionary War.