George was born in
Criccieth in North Wales. His father,
William George, was the younger brother of David Lloyd George. While David Lloyd George pursued a career in national politics, his brother took care of the family firm of solicitors and served for 60 years as a member of
Caernarfonshire County Council. George was educated at
Friars School, Bangor, where he initially joined the
Officers Training Corps, but later applied to leave it. He went on to
Wrekin College,
Wellington, Shropshire. He studied law in the late 1920s at the private tutorial school,
Gibson & Weldon, at 27 Chancery Lane. (One of his tutors was
John Widgery, later
Lord Chief Justice.) He took his articles in the early 1930s with the Clerk of Justices in
Caernarfon, and he qualified as a solicitor in November 1934, when he joined his father's practice, William George & Son, in
Porthmadog,
Caernarvonshire. He continued to practise with the same firm until his death. At 94 years old, he was the fifth oldest practising solicitor in
England and Wales, according to
Law Society records (his father had continued to practise until he was 101). He served as
Clerk to the Justices at
Barmouth from 1948 to 1975, and as a deputy
circuit judge in the
Crown Court from 1975 to 1980. He was also solicitor to the
National Eisteddfod. Outside the law, he turned away from the family's
Liberal leanings, to support
Plaid Cymru. He was a
conscientious objector in the
Second World War, working on the land, and an independent councillor on
Carnarvonshire County Council and then
Gwynedd County Council from 1967 to 1996, serving as Chairman in 1982. He was made a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996 for his services to local government. He was also a
Welsh language poet of some distinction, and was
crowned at the National Eisteddfod in 1974 for his
free metre poem
Tân ("Fire"). He received an honorary doctorate from the
University of Wales in 1988, and was
Archdruid of Wales from 1990 to 1993, taking the
bardic name "Ap Llysor" (meaning "son of Solicitor"). He was also Chairman of the
Assembly of Welsh Counties, and Secretary of the
Baptist chapel at Criccieth. He published five volumes of Welsh poems,
Dwyfor (1948), ''Cerddi'r Neraig
("Neraig Poems", 1968), Grawn Medi
("September Grapes", 1974), Tân
("Fire", 1979) and Dringo'r Ysgol
("Climbing the Ladder", 1989), and a collection Mydylau
("Haycocks") in 2004. He also wrote three biographies (including two of his uncle, Lloyd George, The Making of Lloyd George
in 1976 and Lloyd George: backbencher'' in 1983, based on the archive that he inherited on his father's death in 1967) and his own autobiography,
88 Not Out (), published in May 2001. ==Personal life==