George Sydney Benedict Sayer

George Sydney Benedict Sayer (1 June 1914 – 20 October 2005) was a teacher at Malvern College, trustee of the Lewis estate

Career Sayer was born at Bradfield, Berkshire Bradfield in Berkshire, England. He was educated at Glenalmond College Trinity College, Glenalmond, in Perthshire, Scotland, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was tutored by C. S. Lewis. 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.

Jeremy Paxman, a pupil at Malvern College from 1964 to 1968, described Sayer as "the most wonderful, inspirational teacher a profoundly decent and compassionate man ... the sort of teacher you dream of having".

Personal life Sayer converted to Catholicism in 1935 through the spiritual counsel of a Catholic priest. Sayer's conversion introduced a new dimension into his relationship with Lewis.

Sayer's was married to Moira Casey from 1940 to her death in 1977, from cancer.

Major work Sayer, George (1988) Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times. Part memoir and part biography. The work is recommended by Douglas Gresham as one of the very best C. S. Lewis biographies available.