Sayer served on shore with a body of seamen and marines, at the reduction of Tippoo Saib’s forts, and other possessions on the Malabar coast. He entered the service at an early age as a Midshipman on board the Phoenix frigate, commanded by the late Captain George Anson Byron, with whom he proceeded to the East Indies, in company with a squadron under Commodore Cornwallis. This officer is a native of Deal in Kent, where his father resided as Collector of the Customs upwards of thirty years. Lewis biographies available.A Companion of the most Honorable Military Order of the Bath. The work is recommended by Douglas Gresham as one of the very best C. Sayer's first wife, Moira Casey died in 1977 following a long illness. Sayer's conversion introduced a new dimension into his relationship with Lewis.
Sayer converted to Christianity in 1935 through the spiritual counsel of a Catholic priest. the sort of teacher you dream of having". a profoundly decent and compassionate man. Jeremy Paxman, a pupil at Malvern College from 1964 to 1968, described Sayer as "the most wonderful, inspirational teacher. 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. The recordings were later issued on long-playing gramophone records. Excerpts from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were recorded in Malvern in 1952, at the home of George Sayer. On Lewis's death, Sayer was made a trustee of the Lewis estate. Lewis and Sayer became close friends to the extent that Lewis sought Sayer's advice when considering marrying Joy Gresham. 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.
He was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond, in Perthshire, Scotland, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was tutored by C. Sayer was born at Bradfield in Berkshire, England.
George Sydney Benedict Sayer (1 June 1914 – 20 October 2005) was a teacher at Malvern College, trustee of the Lewis estate and probably best known for his biography of the author C. Bradfield, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
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