The Guardian from London, Greater London, England • 33

Personal THE GUARDIAN Tuesday August 10 1993 Insight into a child's mind John Pilgrim writes: At a time when most were convulsed with merriment over the ineptness and folk pretensions of the first wave of skifflers, Max Jones (obituary, August 4) was the only critic who spotted that something was happening and made a point of coming to hear the Vipers. Surveying the size of the audience, he told me: "You've probably started something that will change the nature of music-making in Britain but," he said reflectively and inoffensively, "you are pretty terrible at the moment." He was right on both counts. He has no obvious replacement ter. She wanted to focus on children with special needs and had recently set up a pilot study to look at then-sleep problems. The families and health care staff with whom she worked recognised that Carol's personal qualities and skills made her an exceptionally good doctor.

In January 1993, her daughter Nicholette gave birth to Louis and becoming a grandmother was one of the highlights of Carol's last months. Writing was a significant part of her life and in recent months she participated in a local writing group. She loved mountaineering and hill-walking and had taken part in expeditions in the mountains of Scotland, Nepal, Norway. Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey. She was committed to campaigns involving the rights of women and to the peace movement In her 20s she had also Envy and Understanding (with Judy Dunn).

Her subsequent publications encompassed different areas of relationships within families. As a single mother, and as a mature student equipped with immeasurable skills in communication, Carol entered the University of Bristol Medical School. She qualified in 1987 and, on completion of her pre-registration year, she came to Manchester to begin her training in paediatrics. Her years of work in Manchester took her across the length and breadth of the city. Her clinical and unique personal approach to the health problems of children were evident in her work at St Mary's, Booth Hall, Wythen-shawe and the Duchess of York hospitals from 1988 to 1992.

In 1993, Carol moved to community child health in south Manches helped to establish and run one of the first self-help childcare groups for children of working parents in Cambridge. Carol lived her short life to the full, overcoming numerous obstacles on its route with great wisdom and strength. She maintained her integrity, her principles, and her direction. She believed that one could make anything, however little, into a better experience. Her unexpected death has left her family, friends and colleagues with a deep sense of loss.

Her positiveness, gentleness and clear thinking were an inspiration to us all and a memorial fund has been set up in her name. Carol Ewing and Judith Emanuel Carol Kendrick, born April 18. 1950; died July 13. 1993. Carol Kendrick AROL KENDRICK, a child psychologist and paediatrician who lived and worked in Manchester, has died aged 43.

It was while her mother was suffering from a severe kidney disease that she decided to change to medicine from an already distinguished career in psychology. Until 1981 she had worked as a child psychologist in Cambridge for the Medical Research Council and, in 1982 she published a highly successful book entitled Siblings: Love, Andy's big sister Cecilia Parker MENTION that Hollywood actress, Cecilia Parker, has died aged 88, and few people would register recognition. Explain that she played Andy Hardy's big sister, Marian, in the immensely popular Andy Hardy series, and their eyes light up. It all started in 1937 with a modest 69-minute little MGM picture called A Family Affair. The film revolved around a normal, middle-class American family living in Carvel, a small mid-westem town.

Contrary to the contemporary Variety headline: Stix nix hits pix, both country bumpkins and city slickers flocked to the homey film. Its success immediately prompted MGM to follow it up with further adventures of the Hardy family, which comprised cruel-to-be-kind Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone), domesticated Mrs Hardy (Fay Holden), their children budding 19-year-old Marian (Parker was actually 28) and cocky 16-year-old Andy (Mickey Rooney) plus loyal maiden aunt, Milly (Sara Haden). The sensitive ensemble playing and good-natured screenplays overrode most of the conservative middle-American values the films espoused. Marian was characterised as being impressionable, romantic and a bit of a snob, often embarrassed by the social inadequacies of her accident-prone younger brother. Each picture contained at least one of Judge Hardy's rather sententious fireside chats, mostly "a man to man" with his son, but there were often "man to woman" talks with a confused Marian.

"Dad, I wish I was as wise and wonderful as you are," she purred. The blonde, athletic Cecilia Parker took up a great deal of screen time in the first few of the 14 film series between 1938-1942, usually falling for the wrong guy. In You're Only Young Once, it was a handsome lifeguard, who turns out to be married; in Out West With The Hardys, she learns painfully that her cowboy idol is not the man for August 10. 1945: All the time one keeps on thinking about this bomb, and what it may make the future like. A perpetual menace over everything but may be as salutary as hell fire was in its time.

I wonder. The Soviet Union of course should have it. Probably the world is in for a period of communism. It will be unpleasant in some ways but it won't destroy other values nearly as badly as Nazi-ism. I intend that my children shall survive.

We wonder if this really is VJ Victory over Japan day or whether the mikado business will hold things up. One hopes they won't go dropping another bomb Among You Taking Notes. The Wartime Diary Of Naomi Mitchinson (Gollana. 1985). John Alldis, choral conductor, 64; Noah Beery, actor.

77; Dame Gillian Brown, former diplomat, 70; Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 60; Sir Lawrence Byford, former HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary, 68; Leila Campbell, former chairman, Ilea, 82; Gen Sir George Cooper, chief Royal Engineer, 68; Eddie Fisher, singer, 65; Rhonda Fleming, actress, 70; Prof Alexander Goehr, composer, 61; John MacLeod of MacLeod, Chief of MacLeod, 58; Barbara Mills, QC, director of public prosecutions, 53; Anita Lonsbor-ough Porter, swimmer and broadcaster, 52; Paul Newlove, Great Britain Rugby League footballer, 22; Kate O'Mara, actress, 54; Elizabeth Thomas, literary consultant, 74; Richard Wells, chief constable, south Yorkshire, 53. Death notices aUSPIEtO TTiomaa Wlftujm On August 8. 1993. at Rose Villa Nursing Home. Hull.

Thomas William. Sc. aged 68 years, formerly of Ounnington. York, much-loved father of Duncan. Audrey and Oorothy.

lovingly remembered by seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral service Friday. August 13. 2 pm. Chanterlands Crematorium.

Hull. No flowers please COCKREU. Malcota On August 9. 1993. alter a short illnesss.

head gardener of Belton House. Grantham, husband of Judith (nee Oye) and father of William and Elizabeth. No flowers by request Funeral to be on Friday. August 13, 11 30 am. at Grantham Crematorium.

Inquiries re donations to funeral directors. Co-operative Society. Ridge End Fload. Grantham Tel Grantham 70023. O'HYAH MIDOUCTON Elizabeth Mary.

On August 7. 1993. in the Whittington Hospital. Elizabeth Mary, beloved mother of Felix. Giles and Tom and a much-loved sister, aunt and partner.

Requiem Mass at St Joseph's, oanmourth Park Hill, Higngate. London N19. on Friday. August 13. at 10 15 am Flowers, donations and all inquiries to Levenon and Sons Limited.

1 Denmark Terrace, London M2 081-444 5753. WIUOH norwio On August 6. 1993. at SI Winifred's Nursing Home, Florence, aged 97, of Hammerstones. Elland.

the dearly-loved wile of the late John Wilson and much-loved mother of Trevor Service and cremation at the Park Wood, Elland, on Thursday. August 12. 1pm Family flowors only. t-nenos. please meet ai crematorium anu this as the only intimation her, and in The Hardys' Ride High she falls victim to nouveau-riche pretentions.

Parker was absent from only two of the Hardy pictures during periods of pregnancy. (She had married actor Robert Baldwin in 1938.) When her MGM contract expired after Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942), she retired from the screen. Born in Canada, daughter of a British army officer, Cecilia Parker studied opera singing at the Toronto Academy of Music, but found herself, instead, in minor horse operas opposite cowboys, George O'Brien, Buck Jones, Ken Maynard and John Wayne. A good equestrienne, she was spunkier than most leading ladies of the genre. She was also the heroine in two serials, The Lost Special (1932) suffering the usual hazards like being trapped in a dungeon rapidly filling with water and The Lost Jungle (1934) starring Clyde Beatty, "The World's Greatest Wild Animal but too bashful to propose to Parker.

MGM pulled her out of the low-grade rut by casting her as Greta Garbo's sister in The Painted Veil (1934); in Ah Wilderness! (1935), based on Eugene O'Neill, and then as Marian Hardy. After 16 years away from the screen, the 53-year-old Cecilia Parker, already a grandmother, looking far less than her age, returned in the role in Andy Hardy Comes Home, an affectionate one-off resuscitation of a beloved series. Ronald Bergan Cecilia Parker, born May 26, 1905; died July 25, 1993. Robert Campbell Jr was an Aboriginal artist whose work ranged from the traditional rural images of Aboriginal culture to the more recent urban experience. One of his paintings, Roped Off At The Pictures depicts Australian apartheid, with Aboriginals restricted to the first three rows at the cinema.

Campbell was born in 1944 and started to draw animals and birds when he was at school. His father, a boomerang-maker, would then transfer his son's designs on to the boomerang. He later worked in a variety of labouring jobs before returning to his home town to record his experiences and to "search for the Aboriginal identity that I've P.P. JOAN AYLING, who has died aged 88, was a Scottish-born painter specialising in the unusual and difficult medium of miniatures in tempera on ivory. An example is the picture above of Tyrone Power as Peter Stan-dish in The House On The Square.

Her father was John Ayling, the Edinburgh publisher and printer, who recognised her creative potential early. Convent-educated Joan studied art at Kll-burn Polytechnic, the School of Arts and Crafts in Birmingham and the Slade, as well as under the etcher Griggs. She exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and in her mid-40s she won medals from the Paris Salon, silver in 1952 and gold in 1957. She was elected vice-president of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters. One of the most distinguished miniaturists of her generation, Ayling frequently exhibited for the Society of Women Artists, at the RBA Mall Galleries off Admiralty Arch and elsewhere.

Among other celebrities secular or sacred who sat for her were Elizabeth Taylor's children, Lord Coggan, Cardinal Hume, Derrick Childs and Lord Jakobovits, then Chief Rabbi. Her own grandfather, Liberal statesman John Morley, would also have been pleased: Joan Ayling painted the last three Speakers of the Commons: Lord Tonypandy, Bernard Weafherill and Betty Boothroyd. Sydney Reynold Joan Ayling, born September 16. 1904; died July 1, 1993..