The following year - aged about 12 - he was brought to London by George I where he became a "human pet" at Kensington Palace.
An altogether less frightening pageant was hosted by King George I, who commissioned German-born composer Handel to write him a piece for the event in 1717.
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Following a visit by George I, who was also Elector of Hanover, he was invited to England where he lived, as a curiosity in the King's court where "his strange appearance and erratic behaviour caused a sensation".
To the extent that nowadays, from now on, if I see as a picture of George Orwell I'll think there's something wrong with him, because he doesn't look as much as Chris Langham as he ought to.
As George and I left the shelter, the dogs were getting a decontamination bath.
Their hair is very personal to them, and they allowed George and I to uncover that and to document their stories.
It's unfair on George Osborne I think for me to try and seek to write budgets now in a television studio.
George, I will always remember the gathering you hosted for all the living former Presidents before I took office, your kind words of encouragement.
George and I were fortunate to travel to west Africa and met some beautiful women there who just shared their traditional hairstyles and opened up their world to us.
"After George and I had our long and productive meeting with Rafa following the Manchester United match, we put all of our issues behind us and received Rafa's commitment that he wanted to stay with Liverpool, " said Hicks.
"I've only received a verbal dismissal from George Rolls and I am yet to receive written confirmation from the rest of the board, " added Brabin.
In a working paper that I have written for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, I draw from the history of technology, military history, and disaster sociology to address this issue of cyber-doom scenarios.
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When he spied George Hamilton, I was glad the president's daughter had left us.
Like Muhammad Ali facing George Foreman, I defy my own strategy and attack the meal two-fisted.
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Away from Westminster this week, George Bush and I were both honoured at the same award ceremony.
The high technology guru George Gilder and I have had a long-standing debate.
We shopped at Madeleine Castaing and an ancient place George knew where I bought ropes of green cut-class beads that looked like emeralds.
George Will said I ran the most conservative government in this country, most successful conservative government in this country in the last 50 or 60 years.
George Oates: I think the challenges for compilation and comparison of records rest in different styles, and the innate human need to collect, organize, and describe the things around us.
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"If I go to a hotel and George Washington slept there, I can still read it, " he said.
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And I think as George Bush looks around and says what can I do in my final two years to improve my legacy, passing comprehensive immigration reforms is going to be one of those things.
As a conservative, I narrowly backed George Bush over Al Gore in 2000, because I found Gore's newly statist and populist persona to be fake, and worryingly left-wing.
"Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interest, " Cheney said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on September 14.
State Senator GEORGE RUNNER (Republican, California): And I'm Senator George Runner, from the 17th District.
You give me a shot at George Bush, and I'll give you the White House.
"I think George Bush has some nerve attacking anybody about special interests, " Dean said.
"I think George Lucas would have been happy being one of those kids, " says Pollack.
My grade-school principal, George Schumacher, and I "stole" my dad's Ford station wagon from our house in St.
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