George James Lidstone FIA FSA FRSE (1870–1952) was a British actuary who made several contributions to the field of statistics.
He was born in London on 11 December 1870, the youngest of five children of Eliza Munnings and her husband, William Thompson Lidstone from Devon.
He was promoted rapidly and ended as Secretary of The Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1905.
His proposers were Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, George MacRitchie Low, John Horne and Cargill Gilston Knott.
After his wife's death he moved to 23 Wester Coates Avenue, in Edinburgh's West End.