George Hurst Foster was a urological surgeon at Ballochmyle Hospital, Mauchline, Ayrshire. Born on 12 July 1934 in Shipley, Yorkshire, he was the son of Charles Foster, a GP, and his wife Dorothy née Cass-Smith. After attending Bradford Grammar School he enrolled at Magdalen College, Oxford to study medicine. He graduated BM BCh in 1960 and, after training at the Middlesex Hospital, worked as a registrar in urology at the Bradford Royal Infirmary. Moving to Scotland he became a senior registrar in the urology department of the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, before obtaining his consultant post in Mauchline. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1967. Among his medical mentors were the surgeons James Rudd Ratcliffe and Robert William Reid and the urologists George Harrison and Charles Lennox Ogilvie Macalister. In 1961 he married Ms McShane and they had a son and two daughters. Outside medicine he enjoyed golf and gardening. He died on 23 October 2007 aged 73.