George Speke (politician, died 1753)

George Speke (c.1686–1753), of White Lackington and Dillington, Somerset, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1722 and 1747.

Speke was the only son of John Speke of White Lackington and Dillington, MP, a wealthy and influential Somerset landowner and his second wife Elizabeth Pelham, daughter of Robert Pelham of Compton Valence, Dorset.

At the 1734 general election, he stood at Wells, where he was defeated at the poll but seated on petition on 25 March 1735.

He voted consistently with the Administration and spoke in debates on the army and the national debt.

He married Jane, the widowed daughter of William Hockmore of Combe-in-Teignhead, Devon in February 1732.

Portrait of George Speke of Curry Revel and White Lackington