Personal Life
In May 1936, as looters ravaged Addis Ababa around him, and while taking a break from rescue work, Steer married French newspaper correspondent Margarita Herrero. A short while afterwards he was deported by the Italian authorities, along with other Europeans, for aiding the opposition Abyssinians.
Margarita Steer died in childbirth in London while George Steer was reporting on the Spanish Civil War. He later married Esme Barton.
In 2006 the town of Guernica honored George Steer unveiling a bronze bust and naming a street in his memory. Also in 2010 the City of Bilbao (Spain) opened the George Steer Street, whose event was attended by Barton George Steer, journalist's son, and granddaughter Sophie.
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