Sir George William Burton (July 21, 1818 – August 22, 1901) was a British-Canadian lawyer and judge.

[5] On June 9, 1850, Burton married Elizabeth Perkins, daughter of Dr. F. Perkins, of Kingston, Jamaica, and niece and adopted daughter of Colonel Charles Cranston Dixon, of the 90th Regiment.

[5] Burton acted as solicitor for the city of Hamilton; also for the Canada Life Assurance Company, of which he was a director, having been elected to that position soon after his elevation to the bench.

[5] In 1856 he was nominated as bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, and when that body became elective by the profession at large, under an Ontario statute passed in 1871,[6] he was elected to the position.

[4][5] Burton was appointed a judge of the Court of Error and Appeal on May 30, 1874, moving to Toronto, Ontario.