George Parkyns, 2nd Baron Rancliffe

George Augustus Henry Anne Parkyns, 2nd Baron Rancliffe (10 June 1785 – 1 November 1850) of Bunny Hall was an English landowner and politician from Nottinghamshire. A baron in the peerage of Ireland, he sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom for thirteen of the years between 1806 and 1830.

Lord Rancliffe's politics were those of an advanced whig, with links to radicalism, and by the 1830s he supported many of the demands of the Chartists. His championing of progressive causes was later tempered by his private support for protectionism, and had always jarred with his public image as a playboy enjoying his inherited wealth. The History of Parliament describes him as an "aristocratic buffoon".

Parkyns was born on 10 June 1785, the oldest child and only son of Thomas Boothby Parkyns, 1st Baron Rancliffe (1755–1800). His father was a grandson of Sir Thomas Parkyns, 2nd Baronet (1664–1741), a writer on wrestling whose own father had been awarded the baronetcy in 1681 in recognition of the royalist service of his father Colonel Isham Parkyns during the English Civil War. George was named after his godfather Prince George Augustus, then Prince of Wales and later King George IV, who was a friend of George's father.

His father's peerage had been secured in 1795 as a reward for his political support of the 3rd Duke of Portland. As an Irish title, it did not prevent its holder from sitting in the British House of Commons.

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