George Lilburne (c.1585 – 23 August 1666) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654.
[3] On the outbreak of the Civil War, he was Mayor of Sunderland and was the only opponent of the other magistrates of Durham and Northumberland who met and formed themselves into Commissioners of Array for the King to raise transport and supplies.
Although it was against his conscience, Lilburne signed a warrant 12 September 1642 with William Carnaby, Thomas Ridell Jnr and Thomas Lydell to requisition horses to carry ammunition for the Kings forces under the Marquis of Newcastle.
He managed to get hold of the Harraton colliery belonging to the lessees of Sir John Hedworth.
Lilburne married firstly Jane Chambers and had a son Thomas who was a parliamentary soldier and MP.