George Frederick Beltz

George Frederick Beltz, KH (9 August 1774 – 23 October 1841) was an English genealogist, appointed Lancaster Herald in 1822.

Life Beltz was the second of seven children of George Nicholas Beltz of St George's, Bloomsbury, a coal merchant, and Elizabeth Gutteridge (died 1796). From at least 1797 to 1816 he worked in the office of the Garter King of Arms.

In 1834, he published, in an octavo volume, A Review of the Chandos Peerage Case. In 1841, he published Memorials of the Order of the Garter, from its Foundation to the Present Time. He was engaged in this work during many years, and only survived its publication by a few months. He was attacked by his last illness while on a tour on the continent, and died at Basel on 28 October 1841, aged 67, and was interred in the cemetery of the parish of St. Peter there.