George Cuthbert Dewe Roberts was born in Plymouth on 20 August 1909. He was the son of George Augustus Roberts and his wife Florence Muriel, née Mills. His father was at that time honorary surgeon to the Royal Hospital, Devonport, before moving to Winchester where he was appointed to the Royal Hampshire Hospital in succession to his cousin, Cecil Wace. He followed his father at Marlborough College and then entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before going to St Thomas's Hospital, his father's medical school. He qualified in 1933 with the Conjoint Diploma and passed his FRCS in 1936, the year after his father retired from his post as senior surgeon to the Royal Hampshire Hospital. Little is known of his career until 1948 except that he served in the RAMC as a Captain from 1940 to 1945. After the war he bought a surgical practice at Hackwood Road Cottage Hospital in Basingstoke and built it up well after the start of the National Health Service. In 1953 he was invited to take two sessions at the Royal Hampshire Cottage Hospital in order to devote all his time to surgery. In 1964, following a reorganisation, he gave up Basingstoke, went into Winchester for seven sessions and took on two sessions at the Andover Memorial Hospital. He became senior surgeon before his retirement in 1974. He was a very shy and retiring man, none the less a very pleasant colleague and a most able general surgeon of the old school whose sound opinion was frequently sought by his juniors. Outside surgery he was a member of Winchester City Council for five years from 1948 to 1953 but his main interests were deer stalking, shooting, salmon and dry fly fishing. He trained his own gun dogs and played bridge to a very high standard. He never married but was a devoted uncle to the children of his three brothers and one sister. He died peacefully on 12 March 1990.