George Henry Tripp CB (28 May 1860[1] - 18 February 1922[2]) was a British civil servant.
In 1909 he and a civil service colleague were appointed by the Home Office to examine the recruiting system used by the Metropolitan Police's Receiver's Office and the following year he was appointed as the fourth Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District,[3] holding the post until 1919.
[1] He was the son of Charlotte and George Lewis Tripp, the latter then working as a barrister's clerk and all of them then living on Stanmore Street.
[4] He lived with his parents and later his widowed mother up until at least the 1881 census, by which time he had started work as a clerk in the Civil Service.
[5] Also in 1881 he married the Irishwoman Sophia Charlotte Freeman and by the 1901 census he was working as an accountant at the Home Office and living with his family in New Barnet.