George, St., the patron saint of chivalry and of England; adopted as such in the reign of Edward III.; believed to have been born in Armorica, and to have suffered martyrdom under Diocletian in A.D. 303; he is represented as mounted on horseback and slaying a dragon (q.v.), conceived as an incarnation of the evil one.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
George, Henry * Georgetown