Captain George Henry Towry (4 March 1767 – 9 April 1809) was a Royal Navy officer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century who is best known for his service as commander of the frigate HMS Dido, in the action of 24 June 1795 in the Western Mediterranean Sea during the French Revolutionary Wars, when, in company with HMS Lowestoffe he successfully fought and defeated the French frigates Minerve and Artémise, capturing Minerve and driving off Artémise.

Towry was born in March 1767, educated at Eton College and joined the Royal Navy at 13 under the patronage of Lord Longford.

The squadrons engaged, Dido narrowly avoiding being crushed during a ramming attempt by Minerve and becoming entangled in the French ship's rigging.

[1] At the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars Towry was given command of HMS Tribune, but after a winter patrol he became ill and was forced to withdraw from active service.

In 1802 he married a Miss Chamberlayne and had a marriage noted for its "greatest harmony and most perfect happiness" until her untimely death in 1806 which left him grief-stricken.