SUMNER, George (1760-1838), of Hatchlands, nr. Guildford, Surr.

Sumner was returned for Ilchester on the interest of Samuel Smith, and in Parliament supported Pitt. Between 2 May 1787 and the dissolution in 1790 fifteen speeches by him are reported—seven of them in defence of Warren Hastings, his father’s old friend. ‘He said [on 10 May 1787]Stockdale, xi. 74. he had been bred up in the habit of regarding that gentleman as a model of perfection, and been taught ... to think, that if he could imitate anything of his great example, he could not fail to make a shining figure in any station, to which ... he might be raised.’

Sumner died 26 June 1838.