George Trout Bartley

Sir George Christopher Trout Bartley, KCB (22 November 1842 – 13 September 1910) was an English civil servant, banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906.

[1] He entered public service and worked for twenty years at the Science and Art Department, becoming Assistant Director.

[4] He announced that he would stand again when a suitable opportunity arose,[5] and contested the Kingston upon Hull West by-election in November 1907.

The intervention for the first time of a Labour Party candidate cut the Liberal majority, but not by enough for Bartley to win the seat, and after his defeat in Hull he did not stand for Parliament again.

He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the November 1902 Birthday Honours list,[7][8] and was invested with the insignia by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902.