I am very saddened.
Many on here will not have known George personally, but will know of him.
He was in his late 80s but extremely fit, and prior to his illness, in very good physical shape. He was a very positive and assertive person, but extremely kindly with it, and a true English gentleman.
He never posted on websites and indeed was never connected to the Internet, and would have nothing to do with it. He did own a computer, and a rather elderly one at that, and had the habit of writing very elegant letters to people when he had something to say to them. I have quite a few and although some are about mundane subjects I have never had the heart to throw them away.
My avatar is a poor likeness.