George Crichton Wells

Career Following a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge, he went to St Thomas' Hospital to continue his clinical studies and qualified in 1939. He prematurely attempted and failed his Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP). After a spell at the Royal Army Medical Corps depot at Church Crookham as a major

At the end of the war he returned to St Thomas' Hospital where he achieved his MRCP in 1946 Wells wrote, together with Geoffrey Dowling, the skin section in many editions of Conybeare's Textbook of Medicine. George Wells' name is associated with the rare condition eosinophilic cellulitis (Wells' syndrome) after he first described it: a patchy inflammatory condition of the skin characterised by what he called "flame figures" from the shapes of the inflamed patches on the skin.

Wells married Margaret Bruce in 1951. They had no children. The couple lived in Hereford Square in South Kensington, London, and on his retirement they moved to Suffolk. Wells was musical and enjoyed playing the Spanish guitar. Margaret predeceased her husband by six weeks.