George Stratton (c. 1734–1800) was an East India Company official and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1778 and 1784.
In 1768 he married Hester Eleanora Light who had travelled out to India as cabin companion of Eliza Draper.
He was appointed Governor of Madras again in 1775, and caused anger by announcing the restoration of the Raja of Tanjore, in direct contravention of a previous treaty which favoured the Nawab of Arcot.
The proceedings were dismissed but the officials were ordered back to England in 1778 by the general court of the East India Company.
[1] On 16 April Admiral Hugh Pigot, the former governor's brother, moved that the House should ask for an official prosecution.
In 1781 the English Chronicle wrote of Stratton "All his fortune, which is now very considerable, has been acquired in the service of the East India Company, and except in the part he took in the revolution at Madras, few men have emerged into sudden consequence with less noise, and, what is better, with less cause for serious imputation than himself."