George Frank Adams was a surgeon in South Africa and Zambia. He was born in Kimberley, South Africa, the son of Wilfrid Adams, a schoolmaster, and Henrietta Louisa Adams née Africa. He was educated at Perseverance Primary School and William Pescod High School, both in Kimberley, and then went on to study medicine at the University of Cape Town. He qualified MB ChB in 1959. He was a house officer at Somerset Hospital, Cape Town, in 1960 and then a senior house officer and registrar at Edendale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg. From 1963 to 1964 he was an anatomy assistant at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. From 1967 he was director of Mission Medic Air, a voluntary, charitable organisation operating a flying doctor service to mission hospitals in Zambia. In 1977 he gained his FRCS from both the Edinburgh and English Royal Colleges of Surgeons. Outside medicine, he enjoyed flying, sailing, radio and electronics. In 1964 he married a Miss Roodt. They had two daughters and a son. George Frank Adams' death was notified to the RCS in 2012.