George Tilson (c. 1672 – 17 November 1738) was a British civil servant, long-serving Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office.
[1] From 1710 until his death in 1738 he was Under-Secretary for the Northern Department, serving under a succession of Tory and Whig Secretaries of State: Bolingbroke, William Bromley, Townshend, James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, Sunderland and Lord Carteret.
[2] As Thomas Carlyle put it, Tilson's name "often turns up [...] in the [...] extinct Paper-heaps of that time".
[3] Tilson's brother Christopher was a long-serving treasury official and MP for Cricklade from 1727 to 1734.
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