George Lewis was born on 24 October 1914 in Bedwas, Monmouthshire, the son of Edgar John Lewis and Ella, née Thomas. His father was a businessman and JP and was also High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1936. George was educated at Malvern College, where he gained an entrance scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1933. He was a rowing Blue, and a member of the Cambridge crew which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1936. From Cambridge he went on to St Thomas's Hospital where he qualified in 1939, and subsequently he worked at Botley's Park Hospital in Chertsey and at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, where he was assistant to Aubrey Mason. During the latter part of the war he served with a field ambulance attached to the Guards' Armoured Division, and took part in the invasion of Normandy and liberation of Brussels. After demobilisation in 1946 he was appointed surgical registrar at the Hammersmith Hospital, and he later became Terence Millin's private assistant at Queen's Gate Clinic in London, working with him until 1954. During this period he also worked at the Brompton Hospital, St James's Hospital, Balham, and the Chelsea Hospital for Women. In 1954 he went to Canada where he demonstrated the Millin prostatectomy technique, and this was followed by two further stints abroad, one as a doctor on a Cable and Wireless ship in the Indian Ocean. On his return to England he took up general practice in Seaford, Sussex, and he worked there until he took early retirement to pursue his many other interests. These included gardening, painting, walking and swimming, as well as carpentry and wood-carving, at which he excelled. In 1939 he married Janet, née Iles, and they had two children, Jeremy, a publisher and writer and Julia, a freelance journalist. George Lewis died on 6 September 1994, survived by his wife and children.