George Henry Lee II, 3rd Earl of Lichfield PC (1718–1772) was a British politician and peer.
His father was the 2nd Earl of Lichfield and a great-grandson of King Charles II through his illegitimate daughter Charlotte Fitzroy by his mistress Barbara Villiers.
George's mother was a daughter of Sir John Hales, 4th Baronet of Hackington,[2] who had brought her up as a Catholic and was the 2nd Earl of Tenterden in the Jacobite peerage.
On 9 December 1760, he became Lord of the Bedchamber to King George III; and on 12 July 1762, Captain of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners.
From the Gentleman's Magazine, XXXIII., p. 349: "The graceful dignity, the political condescension, the ne quid nimis ('Let there be nothing in Excess') of the Chancellor were universally admired" – 1763.He became a vice-president of the Society of Arts; and a deputy lieutenant for Oxfordshire county on 17 October 1763.
On 16 January 1745, in Bath, Lord Lichfield married Diana or Dinah, daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Frankland; they had no children.