George Litefoot

Professor George Litefoot was a pathologist in London during the 1880s and 1890s whose path intersected with the Doctor more than once.

Biography
Litefoot, who was born in the mid 1830s, assisted the Fourth Doctor in investigating Magnus Greel and became good friends with Henry Gordon Jago. (DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang) Jago and Litefoot later descended into the London sewers to kill the rest of Greel's remaining giant rats with a Gatling gun and on the way there, failed to recognise the Fifth Doctor, who had regenerated since their first encounter with him. (BE: A Victorian Interlude)



His association with Henry Gordon Jago continued beyond their adventure with the Doctor. The pair were involved as amateur sleuths in several other mysteries. (CC: The Mahogany Murderers)

In 1894, he assisted the Eighth Doctor and his companion Samantha Jones in investigating a Zygon ship beneath the River Thames. (EDA: The Bodysnatchers)

His father was a brigadier general in the Punitive Expedition to China in 1860 and later remained in the country as a palace attaché. (DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang). He had died by the 1890s. (JAL: The Man at the End of the Garden)