Sir George Barlow, 1st Baronet

[2] When the Marquess of Cornwallis died in 1805, Sir George Barlow was nominated provisional governor-general, and his passion for economy and retrenchment in that capacity has caused him to be known as the only governor-general who diminished the area of British territory; but his nomination was rejected by the home government, and Lord Minto was appointed.

The main cause of the discontent was the abolition of certain purchase contracts for camping equipment which involved some money being embezzled by the officers.

[9] He married Elizabeth, daughter of Burton Smith, in Calcutta on 16 April 1789 and had fifteen children.

that one of these had in fact been fathered by George Pratt Barlow, a young kinsman whom he had admitted to his household in India in 1803.

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