George was educated at Clongowes Wood College. He entered Dublin University in 1892 and graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA), Winter Commencement, 1895. George played Cricket for Dublin University several times during 1895-1897. In 1897, George was awarded the Licentiate in Midwifery of the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin (LM), he also graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MB, BCh), and Bachelor of Obstetrics (BAO), Winter Commencement of the same year. On the 21st March 1898, George registered as a medical practitioner in Ireland and graduated Doctor of Medicine, Winter Commencement during 1898. Dr George Meldon served as Resident Surgeon, Jervis Street Hospital, Dublin [dates unknown]. He was admitted as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in 1901 (and subsequently also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Ireland). In 1903, he married Miss Mary Power (she died in 1908). Appointed Surgeon on the staff of the Westmoreland Lock Hospital, Dublin, circa 1904. (He remained on the staff of the hospital for over forty years), George was also appointed anaesthetist, Royal City of Dublin Hospital and Incorporated Dental Hospital of Ireland, in 1909. He joined the St. John Ambulance Brigade and was mustered as a Divisional Surgeon, circa 1914. (In Meldon’s obituary, appearing on 3 July 1950, The Irish Times reported that “During the Rising of 1916 he acted with great gallantry in bringing in wounded under fire”. Meldon gave expert evidence at the inquest held on Patrick Bealen in Dublin on 16 May 1916. Meldon told the Court that Bealen had been killed by shots ‘fired from a considerable distance.’ Evidence suggested that Bealen had been shot on 29 April by British soldiers, ‘in whose custody he was, an unarmed and unoffending prisoner,’ who were standing at the foot of a staircase Bealen was ascending.) George was commissioned as a temporary Captain in the RAMC, with effect from 27 July 1917. He crossed to France on the 2 August 1917 but returned to the United Kingdom from France on the 3 November 1917 and married Miss Isabel Meredith the same month. Capt Meldon was released from the Army and resigned his commission on the 3rd February 1918. He was appointed by the Chief Inspector of Factories to be a Certifying Surgeon for the Dublin District under the Factory and Workshop Acts, 28 August 1918. (Meldon continued to act as ‘factory surgeon’ for the City of Dublin for over thirty years). He served as consulting anaesthetist at the Meath Hospital in Dublin, and as doctor to the Little Sisters of the Poor in Kilmainham. He created an Esquire of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in 1925, and qualified for the award of the Service Medal of the Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem, 1929. Dr Meldon retired to live at Dunluce, No. 21, Anglesea Road, Ballsbridge in Dublin, and died in his home, Dunluce, on 2 July 1950. He was the son of Dr. Austin George Meldon and his wife, Katherine Pugin [Information researched by William de Villiers]