Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet

Sir George Clerk of Pennycuik, 6th Baronet PC DL FRS FRSE (19 November 1787 – 23 December 1867) was a Scottish politician who served as the Tory MP for Edinburghshire, Stamford and Dover.

He held political office as a Lord of the Admiralty from 1819 to 1830 (from 1827 to 1828 he was a member of the Council of the Lord High Admiral (The Duke of Clarence), as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 5 August to 22 November 1830, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from November 1834 to April 1835, as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from September 1841 to February 1845.

In 1845 he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade[6] and Master of the Mint, posts he held until the fall of the Tory administration in 1846.

[7] Sir George served as President of the Zoological Society from 1862 to 1867 and as Chairman of the Royal Academy of Music.

In 1812 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposers being Thomas Charles Hope, Sir George Stewart MacKenzie and John Playfair.