George Larpent

Sir George Gerard de Hochepied Larpent, 1st Baronet (16 February 1786 – 8 March 1855) was a British businessman of Huguenot and Dutch descent and a Liberal Party politician.

At the 1847 general election he stood in the City of London, where he fell just three votes short of winning the fourth seat.

[7] He edited the Peninsular War journal [8] of his half-brother, Francis Seymour Larpent, and a History of Turkey [9] from papers left by his grandfather, Sir James Porter.

[10] Sir George died on 8 March 1855, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Albert.

[12] His grandson, George Albert Larpent, the third and last baronet who fought in the Kaffir War, committed suicide in 1899 after which the baronetcy became extinct.