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George Faber (British politician)

George Henry Faber (10 December 1839 – 6 April 1910) was a British insurance underwriter and a Liberal Party politician. Faber was born in Camberwell, and became a member of , of Cornhill, underwriters specialising in marine insurance. He was on the committee of Lloyd's of London, and The Times newspaper reported in 1906 that he might have been chairman of Lloyd's if he had wanted the post. He was elected at the 1906 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Boston in Lincolnshire, but did not stand again at the January 1910 election. He died in April 1910, aged 70. (Wikipedia).

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