George Mathew Fortescue

George Matthew Fortescue (21 May 1791 – 24 January 1877) was a British military officer and politician. He was the son of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue, and Hester Grenville, daughter of Prime Minister George Grenville.

Fortescue served in the British Army, primarily in India, where he achieved the rank of captain. In 1816, he took half-pay due to health issues.

In the political arena, Fortescue was affiliated with the Whig Party. He was elected unopposed as one of the Members of Parliament (MPs) for Hindon in the 1826 general election and was re-elected unopposed in 1830. During his tenure, he voted in favor of Lord John Russell's first Reform Bill in March 1831, a bill which, if passed, would have abolished the constituency of Hindon. Following the bill's defeat, Fortescue stood down at the subsequent 1831 election.

Fortescue was interred at Boconnoc Church.

He married Lady Louisa Elizabeth Ryder on 19 February 1833. Lady Louisa was the daughter of Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby. The couple had eight children: four sons and four daughters. Their children included Louisa Susan Anne Fortescue (1833–1864), who married William Westby Moore; George Grenville Fortescue (1835–1856); Harriet Eleanor Fortescue (1836–1924), who married Admiral Sir Augustus Phillimore; Hugh Granville Fortescue (1838–1875), a Captain in the Coldstream Guards; Mary Fortescue (1840–1925), who married Rev. Vernon Harcourt; Elizabeth Frances Fortescue (born 1843); Cyril Dudley Fortescue (1847–1890), a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards; and John Bevill Fortescue (1850–1938), a barrister and High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1894.