George Edward Henry Arthur Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (7 July 1755 – 16 January 1801), styled Viscount Ludlow until 1772, was a British peer.

[1] He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1772 and was appointed Recorder of Ludlow[3] and Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire in 1776.

He added a ballroom but did little to maintain the house, visitor John Byng in 1784 ascribing its neglected state to his time spent "in the prodigalities of London and in driving high phaetons up St James's Street."

At a later visit (1793) he wrote: "The present (grandly-descended peer) is a mean silly man, the bubble of his mistress (and of his steward consequently) who rarely comes here, to sneak for about a day or two.

"[9] Lord Powis died at the York House Hotel, Albemarle Street, London, in January 1801, aged 45, and was buried at St Mary's Church, Welshpool.