George Doughty

Sir George Doughty (13 March 1854 – 27 April 1914) was a British ship-owner and politician from Grimsby in Lincolnshire. He sat in the House of Commons for most of the period from 1895 to 1914, first as a Liberal, then a Liberal Unionist, and finally as a Conservative.

Doughty was the son of William Doughty from Grimsby. He was educated at the Wesleyan Higher Grade School in Grimsby, and became a merchant, a ship-owner, and a partner in the Grimsby-based firm of Hagerup, Doughty and Company Ltd.

However, in 1898 Doughty himself left the Liberal Party to join the Liberal Unionists, and offered himself to the voters of Grimsby for re-election. He resigned his seat on 21 July 1898 by taking the post of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, and at the resulting by-election he was re-elected on 2 August 1898 with an increased majority of 1,751 votes (21.5% of the total).

On 16 August 1907 Doughty married Australian journalist and author Eugenia Stone at the Catholic Church of St James, Manchester Square, London.

In April 1914, Doughty died suddenly at Waltham Old Hall, Lincolnshire, aged 60. He had been in "indifferent health for some months" following an operation in New York while travelling back to England from British Columbia.