George Woodford Thellusson

George Woodford Thellusson (2 March 1764 – 30 December 1811), was a British merchant, banker and politician.

Early life Thelluson was born on 2 March 1764. He was the second son of Peter Thellusson, a wealthy London merchant, and his wife Ann Woodford, daughter of Matthew Woodford. where his uncle, George, founded a banking house. After his father's death in July 1797, his considerable estate, including the Brodsworth estate, a large house known as Plaistow Lodge at Bromley in Kent, and plantations in Grenada and Montserrat, was embroiled in the Thellusson will case.

He was educated at Haileybury College and Harrow School in 1774.

Career A partner in his family's mercantile house, ″Peter Thellusson & Co.″, Thellusson signed the London merchants' declaration of loyalty to Pitt's government on 2 December 1795. He was the last of his three brothers to remain active in the family business, taking as his partners his nephew George Thellusson and one William Mitchell of Serjeant's Inn. The firm was then known as Thellusson, Nephew & Co.

In 1799, he bought Wall Hall (Aldenham) and sold it to the trustees of his father's infamous will in 1805. He served as a director of the East India Company between 1799 and 1807 and a director of the Imperial Insurance Company from 1803 until his death in 1811. and Mary ( Parker) Fonnereau (a daughter of Armstead Parker, MP for Peterborough). Together, they were the parents of two daughters, including: Georgina Thellusson (–), who married Henry Hoyle Oddie, son of solicitor Henry Hoyle Oddie.

Thellusson died on 30 December 1811.