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SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
George More, 1553-1632, county governor, man-of-business and central government office holder
ROGER MUNDEN
The Loseley manuscripts provide the basis for a study of the career of an individual local gentleman, Sir George More. He was a man who inherited considerable wealth and its concomitant responsibilities, the use of which he learned by becoming a student of his father, who had exercised the same responsibilities before him. It is my view that the employment of the skills acquired in that apprenticeship is important and that Sir George More, with his pre-eminence in Surrey, his success in parliament and his active participation in the business of central government, typifies the ruling class of England in the early modern period. The successive stages of Sir Georgeâs career are considered: his apprenticeship to his father, his role as sire of Loseley and as a member of parliament, and his ultimate decline as a parliamentary man-of-business.
