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.