1. Sir George Reresby Sitwell, 4th Baronet was a British antiquarian writer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1895.
13 Facts About George Sitwell
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George Sitwell's father died in 1862 and he succeeded to the baronetcy at the age of two.
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George Sitwell was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
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George Sitwell was elected Member of Parliament for the constituency in 1885, but lost it in the following year.
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George Sitwell was a lieutenant in the West Yorkshire Yeoman Cavalry.
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George Sitwell researched genealogy and heraldry, and was a keen designer of gardens.
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George Sitwell banned electricity in his household well into the 1940s and made his guests use candles.
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George Sitwell deliberately mislabelled his self-medication to stop anyone else using it.
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In 1886 George Sitwell married Lady Ida Emily Augusta Denison, daughter of William Denison, 1st Earl of Londesborough and his wife Lady Edith Frances Wilhelmina Somerset.
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George Sitwell remained in Italy at the outbreak of the Second World War, but moved to Switzerland in 1942.
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George Sitwell died at Locarno in 1943 at the age of 83.
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George Sitwell held his baronetcy for 81 years 89 days, longer than all his three predecessors, and one of the longest times anyone has held a baronetcy in England.
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George Sitwell was succeeded in the baronetcy by his elder son Osbert, who described him vividly in his five-volume autobiography.