High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Frederick Stanley GCSI GCIE CMG (14 October 1872 – 1 July 1938) was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician who served as a member of the UK Parliament for Preston and later, Willesdon East. He also served the Governor of Madras from 1929 to 1934 and as Acting Viceroy of India in 1934.