George was educated at Bedford Grammar School and at Weimar, then studied engineering at University College, London. He was afterwards engaged on the construction of the Central London Tube Railway. An illness turned his thoughts towards medicine, and he began a medical course at Leeds University, finishing it at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, from which he took the Conjoint diplomas in 1905. Five years later he obtained the D.P.H. Oxford. After a series of resident hospital appointments in London, including the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital and the Brompton Consumption Hospital, he was appointed in 1911 school medical officer for the East Sussex County Council. When war broke out he was assistant to the county medical officer of health for East Suffolk and resided at Ipswich. He immediately volunteered and received a commission in the R.A.M.C. before the end of the first week of the war. He was attached as medical officer to the 3rd East Anglian (Howitzer) Brigade of the R.F.A. (T.F.) He later transferred to the military side of St Thomas’s Hospital, and therefore to the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth. In July 1916, he was one of the hospital unit chosen for Mesopotamia by Colonel Bruce-Porter. Shortly after arriving at Basra he was appointed port health officer there, and held this appointment until his death from pleuro-pneumonia in the officers’ hospital. George was the only son of George Finch of Kensington; and the husband of the second daughter of Professor G Carey, F.R.S. - they had one daughter.