伦敦金融城将不会忘记爱德华·乔治。 2002年11月27日,在英国财政大臣戈登·布朗正式宣布原英国中央银行副行长默文·金将接任今年6月末退休的爱德华·乔治后,第二天英国《卫报》就撰文写道: “中央银行行长作为金融城贵族的时代已经一去不复返了。” 而默文·金对爱德华·乔治的评价是: “自中央银行1997年独立以来,爱德华·乔治以稳健的手法,在货币政策委员会 City of London will not forget Edward George. On November 27, 2002, following the official announcement by Gordon Brown, the UK chancellor of finance, that the former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King will succeed Edward George, who retired at the end of June this year, the Guardian newspaper said Wrote: “The era of central bank governors as aristocrats in the City of Finance is gone.” And Mervyn King’s assessment of Edward George: "Since the Central Bank’s independence in 1997, The trick is in the Monetary Policy Committee