Sir George Sitwell, 2nd Baronet

Sir George Sitwell, 2nd Baronet (20 April 1797 – 12 March 1853) was a British politician and landowner.

From his parent's marriage, he had two sisters, Mary Alice Sitwell (who married their cousin, Sir Charles Wake, 10th Baronet, in 1815; after her death, Charles married George's sister-in-law, Charlotte Tait),[1] and Anne Elizabeth Sitwell (who married Gen. Sir Frederick Stovin, a son of James Stovin and younger brother of their stepmother, Sarah Caroline Stovin).

[4] His paternal aunt, Mary Sitwell, married Sir William Wake, 9th Baronet.

[1] Upon the death of his father on 14 July 1811, he succeeded as the 2nd Baronet Sitwell, of Renishaw, County of Derby, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

Reportedly, "Horses and politics were his particular indulgence" but he made a number of disastrous investments, and "lost a fortune in the crash of the Sheffield Land Bank.