George Liddell (MP)

Colonel George Liddell (1678–1740), of Eslington Park, Northumberland, was a British coal owner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1740.

He was one of the dominant figures in the coal-business in the North East, and was a colonel in the militia who was active against the Jacobite threat.

[1] Liddell became a Colonel in the militia and was involved in taking military precautions at the time of the Jacobite rising of 1715.

[2] After 1716 Liddell purchased Eslington Park which was forfeited to the Crown by George Collingwood for his treasonable part in the Jacobite rebellion.

[7] Liddell was on good terms with Walpole, and at the 1727 British general election, he was returned as Member of Parliament for Berwick-Upon-Tweed with the support of the government interest there.