George Tapps

Sir George Ivison Tapps, 1st Baronet (5 January 1753 – 15 March 1835) was a British landowner and developer involved in the founding of Bournemouth.

As lord of the manor he was also trustee for the areas set aside as common land, for cottage dwellers to dig for turf and suchlike.

In 1810 Tapps sold 8.5 acres (34,000 m2) on the west bank of the Bourne Stream to Lewis Tregonwell for £179 11s.

In 1834 Tapps obtained a loan of £40,000 from the Earl of Arran and John Augustus Fuller, into whose family his son had married, on the mortgage of the Tapps-Gervis estate at Hinton Admiral near Christchurch.

With this money he intended to develop his estates on the east bank of the Bourne Stream.