George Woodroffe (1625 - 1688) was an English politician for a Surrey constituency in the late seventeenth century. [1]
Woodroffe was born at Poyle in Stanwell and educated at Christ Church, Oxford. [2] He was High Sheriff of Surrey in 1668 [3] and was knighted on 19 May 1681. Woodroffe sat as M.P. for Haslemere from 1681 to 1687. He died on 6 December that year. [4]
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