Background
Sayer was born at Bradfield in Berkshire, England.
Sayer was born at Bradfield in Berkshire, England.
He was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond, in Perthshire, Scotland, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was tutored by C. South. Lewis.
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. Sayer became Head of English in 1949. On Lewis"s death, Sayer was made a trustee of the Lewis estate.
Excerpts from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were recorded in Malvern in 1952, at the home of George Sayer.
The recordings were later issued on long-playing gramophone records. 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. a profoundly decent and compassionate manitoba. the sort of teacher you dream of having".
Sayer, George (1988) Jack: Christian Science Lewis and His Times Foreword by Lyle West. Dorsett. Participant memoir and part biography.
The work is recommended by Douglas Gresham as the very best C. South. Lewis biography available.
