He obtained a Fellowship in the same college in 1716, took MA in 1717, and was ordained deacon at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford by Bishop John Potter on 21 December 1718.
At Westminster St James he was ordained priest on 8 February following, by Bishop Talbot of Salisbury, and three days later was instituted Rector of Crudwell, Wiltshire, a living which he held until his death.
(This presents John as of Horsham, but belonging to a military regiment stationed in Ireland, and left a £5 annuity to one Mrs Bowyer of Portarlington, County Laois, and £100 to be shared between all her grandchildren after her decease.
Being unmarried, he made his niece Elizabeth (daughter of his brother Charles) his executrix and residuary legatee, and gave £400 in money and East India Company bonds to his mother (then aged 93).
By a separate Codicil made at the same time as his will and referred to in the principal document, he made a special bequest of two thousand pounds of new South Sea Annuities to his servant Ann Evans in Trust to provide for herself an annuity of £40 for life and the residue for the maintenance and marriage portion of her daughter Ann Evans by herself or by such guardian as she shall think fit to appoint.
[8] Among his bequests to nephew Charles is (by the last Codicil, transmitted by a servant) the choice of pictures in his rooms at Westminster: "Master set once and paid a Guinea New Pavement[9] Charing Cross, If Mr Ingram pleases he may have it".
The younger portrait, in an oval frame, shows George with long and full brown curly hair and holding a pair of gloves, with a classical landscape behind.