Major General George Anson, CB, was a British military officer and Whig politician. He entered the Army in 1814 as an Ensign in the 3rd Scots (Fusiliers) Guards and served at an early age in the Napoleonic Wars and fought at the Battle of Waterloo. He later sat as an MP for Great Yarmouth from 1818 to 1835, for Stoke-upon-Trent from 1836 to 1837, and for Staffordshire South from 1837 to 1853. He served as Storekeeper of the Ordnance under Lord Melbourne from 1835 to 1841, and as Clerk of the Ordnance under Melbourne in 1841 and under Lord John Russell from 1846 to 1852. Anson succeeded to the command of the Army of the Madras Presidency in India in 1854, and in 1856 became Commander-in-Chief in India. He died of cholera at the age of 59, during his march against the Indian rebels during the of Siege of Delhi in 1857.