George Williams (British politician)

Lieutenant-Colonel George Williams (1765 – 19 December 1850) was a British army officer and Liberal politician.

[3][5] He was granted a commission as an ensign in the 62nd Regiment of Foot, replacing an officer mortally wounded at the Battle of Freeman's Farm.

With the threat of an invasion by French forces, he helped organise the merchants and tradesmen into a local defence unit, The Liverpool Volunteers.

[6] Following the enactment of the Reform Act 1832, Williams was approached by the electors for the newly enfranchised parliamentary borough of Ashton-under-Lyne to stand as Liberal candidate.

[9] Elizabeth was the daughter of Nicholas Ashton (1744–1833) of Woolton Hall and his wife Mary Warburton Philpot.

[10] Through her maternal grandfather John Philpot, she was heiress to the Hefferton Grange estate of the Warburton family.