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'''George Best''' DL, JP (10 November 1759 – 8 September 1818) was a British politician.
Best was the son of James Best, of Park House, Boxley, Kent, High Sheriff of Kent in 1751, by Frances, daughter of Richard Shelley, of Michaelgrove, Sussex.<ref name="thepeerage.com">{{cite web |url=http://thepeerage.com/p14105.htm#i141046 |work=The Peerage |title=George Best |date=14 March 2010 }}</ref> He sat as Member of Parliament for Rochester from 1790 to 1796.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Rcommons2.htm |title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Rochester to Ryedale |access-date=14 November 2010 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219110721/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Rcommons2.htm |archive-date=19 December 2012 }}</ref> He was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Kent.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/>
Best married Caroline, daughter of Edward Scott, of Scott's Hall, Kent, in 1784. They had several children, including Dorothy Best, wife of Reverend Joseph George Brett and mother of William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher. The family lived at Chilston Park, Boughton Malherbe, Kent. Best died in September 1818, aged 58.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/>
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|gb}} {{s-bef|before=Sir Charles Middleton, Bt<br/>Nathaniel Smith}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament for Rochester |with=Sir Richard Bickerton, Bt 1790–1792 |with2=Nathaniel Smith 1792–1794 |with3=Sir Richard King, Bt 1794–1796 |years=1790–1796}} {{s-aft|after=Hon. Henry Tufton<br/>Sir Richard King, Bt}} {{s-end}}
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