When George Charles Spinks was born on 1 December 1923, his father, Robert John Spinks, was 34 and his mother, Lily Trevellion, was 31. He married Gladys Hale on 18 June 1949, in Willesden, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. He died on 2 October 2003, in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, at the age of 79.