After playing, officially in 1942, effectively 1941 from when he served in the RAF as a trainer for the remainder of the War, in his professional life George Brown would post-War first work as an English teacher at what was then Hamilton Crescent Public School and is now Hyndland Primary, on what is now Fortrose St. in Partick, was Hamilton Crescent and somewhat fittingly overlooks the Cricket Ground of the same name, the World's first venue for the international game. He then went on in 1963 to be headteacher of Bellahouston Academy. But meantime his association with the game did not end. Off-field he was in 1943 appointed as a director of The Gers, remaining in position until the 1970s. 

And whilst still a player, of course, he had married, at twenty-nine in 1936, in Glasgow to Margaret Stirling. They were to have two children but sadly she was to die relatively young, at fifty-six in 1965, George surviving her by the best part of a decade and half. His passing would be in the Western Infirmary in 1988 at the age of eighty-one.