George was educated at Dundee High School, at Bradford Grammar School and at Edinburgh University, qualifying M.B., Ch.B. in 1904 and MD. in 1909. From 1906 he was engaged in general practice in Denbeath, Methil, Fife. He entered the war in France in July 1915, serving as a surgeon in a Military Hospital for the Anglo-French Red Cross. He later took up a temporary commission at the rank of lieutenant with the RAMC on 7th June 1917. From November 1917 - March 1919, he served as the surgical specialist to the 69th General Hospital. After the war, in 1919, he was appointed Deputy Medical Secretary of the British Medical Association, then in 1932 was promoted to the Association’s Medical Secretary. George wrote several publications in the medical journals on medico-political and medico-sociological subjects. He was a keen sportsman, enjoying athletics and golf. He was the son of Rev. K C Anderson and Robina (nee Fisher).