The house was built speculatively with monies from the Adam family and from the banker Sir George Colebrooke, later to be an Adam client himself.
Due to the inability of its original grantees to settle the remote area, however, it was regranted in 1770 by Colonial Governor John Wentworth, who renamed it Colebrook Town after Sir George Colebrooke, the East India Company's chairman of the board.
Social eyebrows were raised when Crosdill married Elizabeth, née Thresher, the wealthy widow of Robert Colebrook, (brother of Sir George Colebrooke), on 31 May 1785 at St. Marylebone Church, London.
George W. Bush | George Washington | George H. W. Bush | George | George Bernard Shaw | Order of St Michael and St George | Sir | George Gershwin | George Orwell | George Harrison | George Clooney | George III of the United Kingdom | George Frideric Handel | Sir Walter Scott | David Lloyd George | George Washington University | George Lucas | Saint George | George III | George Michael | George Pataki | George Clinton | baronet | George S. Patton | George IV of the United Kingdom | George Soros | Baronet | George V | George Balanchine | George Armstrong Custer |
In 2002 Sir Derek Bibby, 2nd baronet, and great-great-grandson of the founder and past chairman and president of the firm, was aged 80 and terminally ill with leukemia.
Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet (14 June 1729 – 5 August 1809), of Gatton in Surrey, was an English merchant banker, chairman of the East India Company and Member of Parliament, who bankrupted himself through unwise speculations.
•
Meanwhile his brother, James had bought control of one seat in another rotten borough, Gatton in Surrey, for £23,000, and was also sitting in Parliament.