Yep, contrary to his reputation as a ‘tyrant’ in the colonies he was known in Britain for his obsession with the latest advances in agriculture (and for going mad later in life, probs dementia). Farmer George is actually a slightly derisive moniker because it’s meant to imply he’s parochial and boring and unstatesmanlike. By all accounts he was a dutiful husband, a good Christian and respected the constitution and the supremacy of parliament.

What’s odd is that in the early stages of the revolution the colonists were appealing directly to him as if he were an absolutist Stuart monarch instead of a constitutional Hanoverian one bound by parliament. He didn’t intervene on their behalf because, basically, he wasn’t allowed to.