George Sayer (biographer)

George Sydney Benedict Sayer (1 June 1914 – 20 October 2005) was a teacher at Malvern College, trustee of the Lewis estate[1] and probably best known for his biography of the author C. S.[2] He joined the staff of Malvern College in 1945 after having been a captain in the British Army Intelligence Corps on account of his fluent German.[2] Excerpts from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were recorded in Malvern in 1952, at the home of George Sayer.[3] In the liner notes for J. R. R. Tolkien Reads and Sings his The Hobbit & The Fellowship of the Ring, George Sayer wrote that Tolkien would relive the book as they walked and compared parts of the Malvern Hills to the White Mountains of Gondor.[1] Sayer converted to Catholicism in 1935 through the spiritual counsel of a Catholic priest.
Bradfield, BerkshireMalvern, WorcestershireMagdalen College, OxfordC. S. LewisMalvern CollegebiographyBradfieldTrinity College, GlenalmondBritish ArmyIntelligence CorpsJoy GreshamJ. R. R. TolkienThe HobbitThe Lord of the Ringsgramophone recordsWhite Mountains of GondorJeremy PaxmanDouglas GreshamGeneral Register Office for England and Wales