George Neville, Duke of Bedford (22 February 1465 – 4 May 1483) was an English nobleman, a scion of the House of Neville. At birth, he was likely heir to great wealth, but due to the political failure of his father and uncle, he inherited very little.
He was the son of John Neville, Earl of Northumberland and a nephew of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick. George's mother was Isabel Ingoldisthorpe, daughter and heiress of Sir Edmund Ingoldsthorpe and Joan Tiptoft. However, his father and his uncle Warwick rebelled against Edward IV the following year and were slain in battle, causing the proposed marriage to be scrapped. George had a half-interest in the estates of his maternal grandfather, Sir Edmund Ingoldsthorpe, and his maternal grandmother, Joan Tiptoft.
Shortly before he came of age in 1478 he was denied the title of duke by an act of Parliament, ostensibly for lack of money to "support the name, estate or dignity" of a duke. The title was subsequently given to the infant George of York, the third son of Edward IV.
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- reprinted in his book Richard III and his Rivals.