Sayer to write Jack, wrote that "uring his third year in Oxford Lewis's latter-day secretary Walter Hooper, who had urged I got no further on my own, for with gusto and a glowing face he Citing G.K Chesterton, George began quoting The Ballad of the Lewis asked Sayer to name poets he admired andĮnjoyed. Had retreated from his forehead, which made him especially Lewis, he wrote, was "a heavily built man who looked aboutįorty, with a fleshy oval face and a ruddy complexion. In his mouth and a puckish face" (xv) waiting outside Lewis's His preface to Jack described hisįirst encounter with Tolkien, "a neat, grey-haired man with a pipe Sayer first met Lewis and Tolkien during Michaelmas term at Was an improvement-there he was 'merely bored'" Prep school, located in the northern regions of Perthshire, Scotland, Wade Center, writes that he described "hisįirst schooling experience, a pre-prep school in Eastbourne, as brutalĪnd abusive, similar to what Lewis himself experienced at Wynyard. Christopher Mitchell, director of WheatonĬollege's Marion E. During the hot seasons there, George was sent back toĮngland for schooling. George Sydney Benedict Sayer was born June 1, 1914, in Bradfield,īerkshire, the son of an irrigation engineer whose work abroad included
None of those who met him will ever forget
Like many a man blessed with great teachers, he became a Lewis Volume III attest to his generosity and the affection Lewisįelt for him. No fewer than thirty letters in The Collected Letters ofĬ.S. Lewis's apt description, "that most unselfish man" To resubmit The Lord of the Rings for publication when he had despaired Tolkien, and it was his encouragement that led Tolkien Lewis's life, a final act of loyalty and love. Rightfully respected as the best of the many recollections of Of an academic life: a student who becomes, in time, a good friend. GEORGE SAYER IS A SUPERB EXAMPLE of one of the greatest blessings
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