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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1989 15 SOCIAL NEWS Court Circular BUCKINGHAM COURT AND SOCIAL 28th The Queen held a Council at 9.45am at Windsor Castle. There were re present: The Rt Sir Geoffrey Howe, MP, (Lord President), The Rt Hon King, MP, (Secretary of State for Defence), The Rt Hon Peter Brooke, MP, (Secretary of State for Northern Ireland), and The Rt Hon Nicholas Scott, MP, (Minister of State, Department of Social Security). The Rt Hon Nicholas Scott, having been previously appointed a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, took the necessary Oaths. Rt Hon Tom King received the Seals of Office as Secretary of State for Defence, took the Oath of Office and kissed hands on appointment. The Rt Hon Peter Brooke received the Seals of Office as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, took the Oath and kissed hands on appointment.

Geoffrey de was in attendance as Clerk of the Council. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh visited the Country Landowners' Association Game Fair at Stratfield Saye today. Her Majesty and His Royal Highness were received on arrival by Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant for Hampshire (Sir James Scott) and The Duke of Wellington. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh toured the Game Fair with the Director (Lt-Col ReesWebbe) and honoured the Duke and Duchess of Wellington with their presence at luncheon. Her Majesty and His Royal Highness later left in an aircraft of The Queen's Flight.

The Lady Farnham, the Rt Hon Sir William Heseltine, Mr John Parsons, and Lt-Col Blair Stewart- Wilson were in attendance. The Duke of Edinburgh, as Master of Trinity House, this afternoon opened the new Trinity House Sub Depot at East Cowes. Major Sir Guy Acland, Bt, was KENSINGTON PALACE July 28th The Prince of Wales received Mr Brian Wolfson (Chairman, National Training Task Force). BUCKINGHAM PALACE July 28th The Duke of York this morning visited Brooklands Aerospace Group Ltd at Sarum Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire. His Royal Highness was received by Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant for Wiltshire, (Colonel Sir Hugh Brassey).

The Duke of York travelled in an aircraft of The Queen's Flight and was attended by Captain William McLean. BUCKINGHAM PALACE July 28th This morning, The Princess Royal, Chief Commandant, Women's Royal Naval Service, reviewed Ceremonial Divisions at the Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon, Plymouth, Devon. Her Royal Highness presented The Queen's Sword and WEDDINGS Col CT Newton Dunn and Mrs Trueman The marriage of Col Charles Newton Dunn and Mrs Carolyn Trueman took place at the Church St Peter and St Paul, Thruxton, on Saturday, July 22, 1989. Mr Layer and Dr. Sillick The marriage took place on July 22 in Pembroke College Chapel, Oxford, between Mr Graham Tansley Layer, elder son of Mr Mrs Henry Layer, of Brentwood, and Dr Jennifer Mabel Sillick, only daughter of Mr Leonard Sillick and the late Harriet Sillick, of Oxshott.

The Rev John Platt officiated. The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, was attended by Vanessa Sanderson, Lucy Cummin, Francis Hornyold-Strickland and Thomas Lehman. Mr Martin Layer was best man. A reception was held in the Chapel Quadrangle and the honeymoon is being spent in the South Sea Islands and on the Great Barrier Reef. TODAY'S EVENTS Queen's Life Guard mounts, Horse Guards, 11; Queen's Guard mounts, Buckingham Palace, 11.30.

conferred Bachelor's and Master's Degrees. Her Royal Highness, attended by Mrs Richard Carew- Pole, travelled in an aircraft of The Queen's Flight. YORK HOUSE July 28th The Duke of Kent, as Chief of the Devon 5 and Dorset a Regiment, today visited the 1st Battalion at Bessbrook and, as President of the Scout Association, visited the International Scout Camp, Gosford 89, Northern Ireland. His Royal Highness, who travelled in an aircraft of No Squadron Royal Air Force, was attended by Mr Andrew Palmer. The Duchess of Kent today named the Royal National LifeInstitution's new Lifeboat "City of at Whitby, North Yorkshire.

Her Royal Highness, who travelled in an aircraft of The Queen's Flight, was attended by Miss Sarah Partridge. The Prince and Princess of Wales celebrate the eighth anniversary of their marriage today. The Princess Royal, President, Equestre Internationale, will attend the European Senior Dressage Championship, Mondorf-les- Bains, Luxembourg, on Aug 6. A memorial service for the Rt Rev Cecil Horstead will be held tomorrow at St Margaret's, Westminster, at 4.30 pm. BIRTHDAYS Today: Lord Scarman, a former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, is 78; the Marquess of Normanby 77; Lord Grimond, of the Liberal Party, 76; Mr Max Faulkner, golfer, 73; Sir Saunders, Chairman and Chief Manager, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 1962- 72, 72; Mr Justice Michael Davies 68; Lord Weinstock, Managing Director, General Electric Company, 65; Viscount Ridley, Lord Lieutenant for Northumberland, 64; Sir Leslie Fielding, Vice-Chancellor, Sussex University, 57; and Mr Joe Johnson, World Snooker Champion, 1986, 37.

Tomorrow: Sir Edmund Compton, former Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (Ombudsman), Sir Richard Powell, former senior civil servant and company chairman, 80; Prof Northcote Parkinson, author, historian and journalist, 80; Lord Killanin, author, film producer and Honorary Life President, International Olympic Committee, 75; Lord Grantley 66; Lord McCarthy, industrial relations specialist, 64; Mr Justice Ewbank 64; Lord Justice Russell 63; Prof Martin, Vice- Chancellor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 61; Sir Kerry St Johnston, former Chairman, Containers, 58; Mr Peter Plouviez, General Secretary, Equity, 58; Mr Justice Thorpe 51; the Earl of Glasgow (Patrick Boyle, television director and producer) 50; Mr Peter Bogdanovich, film director, writer and actor, 50; Sir Clive Sinclair, entrepreneur and inventor, 49; Miss Teresa Cahill, soprano, 45; Miss Frances de la Tour, actress, 45; and Mr Daley Thompson, Olympic Decathlon gold medallist, 1980 and 1984,31. Today the anniversary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. SERVICE REUNION Fiddlers Club Gen Sir St Martin James's Farndale, Gunner, Park, guest of honour at the annual reunion of the Fiddlers Club (exTrumpeters, Royal Artillery) held at the RSA, Larkhill, last evening. Lt-Col AJ Taylor presided. SERVICE DINNERS Hertfordshire Army Cadet Force The Lord Lieutenant for Hertfordshire was represented by Col Fitzgerald, principal guest, at the annual dinner of Hertfordshire Army Cadet Force held last night at St Martin's Plain Camp, Folkestone.

A Parsley presided. Other guests included: Col Raywood, Col Lt-Col MacDonald and Chief Supt Gorham. RAF Handling Squadron Officers of RAF Handling Squadron celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Squadron's formation with a ladies guest night held yesterday at the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Boscombe Down. Air Cdre Profit, Inspector of Flight Safety, and Air Cdre Bywater, Commandant, A and AEE, were the guests of honour. Cdr CT Peile, Officer Commanding the Squadron, Theatres: Page XVI presided.

MEDITATION IN WHOSE IMAGE? By Canon D. W. Gundry IN THE first chapter of Genesis we read, "God created man in his own image." Those words are often quoted but less often explained. Today the anonymous cynic's observation, "Man created God in his own image," is probably quite as familiar. Before conventional believers, however, dismiss this it is worth reflecting on because it contains a grain of truth.

Each generation paints its own picture of God, and to some extent it answers a passing need. In his latest memoirs, the novelist John Updike comments: age of anxiety all too suitably takes God as a tranquilliser, just as feudal times took Him as Lord or King, leaving us a language of piety loaded with obsolete obeisances, or other eras took as magical incantation, or an insatiable able repository Watchmaker, of blood or a sacrifice surge of and self mutilation, or an imperturbuntie on could are add not to the really list. theologies Liberation at all theology, but ideologies feminist masquer- theology ading as such. We should always beware of the latest fashions in religion. In a church in New York there is a crucifix on which the divine victim is a woman.

Maybe the artist was trying to tell us that the Saviour bears the sins committed against womankind; but one suspects that the real purpose was to promote the feminist cause. Beware, too, of the "gentle Jesus, meek and mild" of Victorian hymnody. The image continues in pictures of Christ as pacifist or socialist. These may be acceptable philosophies for some, but they are inadequate as ideas of God. We shall go astray if we seize on fads and pick what suits us from the Bible and religious classics in support.

It should be the other way round. We should let the Bible and the great authors instruct us and challenge us, including our fads. Most do not have the time to draw for themselves on the spiritual riches we have inherited. It is therefore essential to have an educated clergy can help us to know what being made in the image of God really means. If we are tempted to see God as the personification of a passing pet ideology or, in Updike's phrase, as a tranquilliser, it is time to hear God speak, for example, in the Ten Commandments or to look thoughtfully at Michelangelo's Last Judgment.

Often our vision of God is too small. Picture: ILKAY MEHMET Dave Sherwood (right) from Herstmonceux, with Chris Venn, preparing the boards for a trug, or traditional basket, made from willow, sawn in thin boards and then shaved smooth. The Sussex craft was brought to public notice by Thomas Smith from Herstmonceux, who showed his wares at the 1851 Great Exhibition FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES Dr Hunter and Miss Murdoch The engagement is announced between Robin, elder son of Mr and Mrs Hunter, of Crawcrook, Tyne and Wear, and Fiona daughter of Margaret, Mr and elder Sirs Murdoch, of Aspley Heath, Beds. Mr Matthews and Miss Parkes The engagement is announced between Jeremy Charles Dion, eldest son of Wing Commander Dion Matthews (Retd), of Kowloon, Hong Kong, and Hanna, of Rachel, daughter of Richard Shrewsbury, and Miranda A Parkes, of Titley, Herefordshire, the late Mrs Angela he Lemmon, of Kingstonupon- Surrey. Mr Palmer and Miss Campbell The engagement is announced between Robert, eldest son of Dr and Mrs Palmer, of Bowness-on-Windermere, and Mrs I Campbell, of Coombe Lucy, only daughter of Mr an Road, Hong Kong.

Mr Ritchie and Miss A Dodds The engagement is announced between James, youngest son of Dr and Mrs Ritchie, of Totaras, Upper Plain, Masterton, New Zealand, and Philippa, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Dodds, of Shield Hall, Hexham, Northumberland. Mr Lewis-Ogden and Miss Webster The engagement is announced between Edwin Richard LewisOgden, eldest son of Mr Lewis-Ogden, ACMA, IPFA, and the late Mrs LewisOgden, of Burley-in-Wharfedale, near Ilkley, Yorkshire, and Susan Katrine Webster, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Webster, of Rodley, near Leeds, Yorkshire. Mr Moxon and Miss Gilbert The engagement is announced between Jonathan, son of Mr and Mrs A Moxon, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and Sally, daughter of Mr and Mrs Gilbert, of Earl Shilton, Leics. Mr Eliot and Miss Steadman The engagement is announced between Richard James Coryndon, son of Mr and Mrs Michael Eliot, of Hampton, Middlesex, and daughter of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Steadman, of Tolworth, Surrey. Mr A Wastnage and Keen The engagement is announced between Daniel, son of Mr and Mrs Geoffrey Wastnage, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, and Rachel, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Keen, of Old Harlow, Essex.

Mr Barry and Miss Cutts The engagement is announced between Graham Michael, son of Mr and Mrs Dennis Barry, of Chesildean Avenue, Bournemouth, and Sara Christabel, eldest daughter of Mrs Nigel Cutts, of Normanton House, Normantonthe -Wolds, Notts. Mr Wilkinson and Miss Hammond The engagement is announced between Christopher, son of Mr and Mrs A Wilkinson, of Stratford-upon-Avon, and Caroline, daughter of Mr and Mrs CA Hammond, of Hong Kong. Mr PS Hardwick and Miss Kirrage The engagement is announced between Philip Sean, eldest son of Mr and Mrs I Hardwick, of Ilkeston, Derbys, and Claire Louise, younger daughter Mr and Mrs Kirrage, of Newark, Notts. Mr DT A Cummings and Miss Howarth The engagement is announced between David, younger son of Mr and Mrs Cummings, of Disley, Cheshire, and Kate, only daughter of Mr Mrs Howarth, of North Road, near Congleton, Cheshire. Harry Worth A memorial service is to be held later this year for the comedian Harry Worth, who died last week.

A family spokesman said they hoped could be held Paul's Church, Covent Garden. Latest Wills NET BOREHAM, F. G. Hinksey Hill, Oxon £971,141 COLLETT, J. D.

Hayling Is, Hants 1,097.468 DALE, L. Edenbridge, Kent. 591.107 Laying down port no longer worthwhile at recent prices ONLY one bargain was to be had yesterday when Christie's last wine sale of the season produced the strongest prices of the year: vintage port. Prices for mature port moved sluggishly or slowly; young port hardly moved all. All the great shippers of the 1983 vintage could be bought for a per case the market depressed, argued Mr Duncan McEuen, Christie's wine expert, by the campaign against drink and by the trade's simple refusal to tie up large sums of money at 17 per cent interest over 10 years.

So much has this become so that the mathematics of buying port passed on by father to son for generations have totally changed. It no longer pays, at present levels, to lay down port for drinking. Anyone who wants to lay down, for example, a cellar of 1977s, the greatest vintage since 1963, would be doing better buying them in the saleroom in 1989 at £181:50 to case (Croft to Taylor) than to have put down capital in 1980 on their arrival in England and cellared them. The rest of the wine market presented a quite different picture, with the Chancellor's hopes that 14 per cent interest would restrain British buying of like wine proving an illusion. By Godfrey Barker Among clarets, demand was strong yesterday for the best vintages of the 1970s, with '70s and '71s going between mid and high estimate, '75s holding level with occasional flights into the sky like Ch La Mission Haut at £1,155 per dozen (Haut Brion '75 a snip at £418) and even the hard and bony '78s getting off the floor (Leoville Las Cases making £275 per dozen).

Among more recent Bordeaux vintages, the great 1982s sold at top end of range (two of the very best, Ch Calon Segur at £187 and Cos d'Estournel at £319 moving up while Ch Figeac at £286, Ch d'Issan at £132, Ch La Lagune at £148:50 and Vieux Ch Certan at £264 per dozen all delivered notable drinking for rising sums). The hardly less distinguished 1983s were, however, looking cheap, perhaps because people do not rapidly change an initially negative reaction, while the 1985s, not before time, were stagnant in price terms; they still look very dear against the 1983s, even though much more forward and ready for drinking. Yesterday's was the sort of end- year sale which until recently was 30 to 40 per cent bought up by Americans. This time the United States took no more than 5 per cent while private British buyers and German SATURDAY COLUMN restaurants were much to the fore. One tasting note: finest sweet wines are suddenly the rage of private collectors.

Ch d'Yquem 1967 at £4,180 per case sold for twice the price of two years ago while Oestricher Lenchen Trockenbeerenauslese 1971 went for £935 (est A handful of enthusiastic private are sending prices through the roof. market Christie's gain to managed 44 a small cent per against Sotheby's in the art market year September 1988 to August 1989. Sotheby's reported sales of £1,356 million, Christie's of £1,041 million, up 57 and 63 per cent on 1987-88. For both houses, turnover has more than doubled in two years. Split per cent, Christie's market share has advanced for the second year running.

With the markets in Impressionist Modern Pictures Contemporary Art running rampant, Sotheby's sold 258 items in the present year for more than $1 million, Christie's 147. with Picasso's self-portrait, "Yo approaching the £30.187,623 record for a work of art in May when it sold for £28,825,800 at Sotheby's New York. New records for single sales were also set in New York at $205 million and $178 million. Reliving a Highland fling CHRISTOPHER BOOKER was pleasantly surprised to find the Scotland of his boyhood memories largely unscathed by time and tourism THE most memorable holiday of my boyhood was a visit to Scotland in an old pre- war Morris 8 in 1952. Many times I have recalled those distant magical days seeing capercaillie, those strange turkey-like birds, in the ancient pine forest of Rothiemurchus at the start of an unforgettable climb up two of the 4,000 ft Cairngorms; crawling along the narrow winding roads of the north- Highlands in mist and rain; staying in the one hotel of the austere, remote fishing village of Ullapool, where the only wine was a 1947 Beaujolais for eight shillings; gazing in awe at those craggy Sutherland peaks the sugar loaf Suilven, Stac Polly like a Gothic cathedral of rock.

But for some reason I never returned to those parts until this glorious summer, which seemed a perfect opportunity to retrace that boyhood journey with our own two boys. How would it all have changed in the past 37 years? Would those remembered scenes be overcrowded, spoiled and unrecognisable? Certainly on the journey up we saw crowds. Durham and Edinburgh were packed with coaches and tourists. But on the clifftops near Flamborough Head we were alone as we looked down on the thousands of kittiwakes, puffins, guillemots and razorbills lining every inch of rock. Almost else was in sight as we walked a along two miles of Hadrian's Wall at Housesteads in glorious late afternoon sun.

In the Border hills we stood alone below the grim walls of Hermitage Castle as a barn owl circled just above our heads for several minutes in golden evening light. In the Cairngorms we found modest crowds at the Loch Garten Osprey Reserve, where the birds can be watched not only through telescopes but also by up on television, and in a biting wind on top of Cairngorm itself, which tourists can ascend by chair-lift. But only a few hundred yards NICOLAS GUILLEN, who has Medwin Havana aged 87, was as Cuba's "national poet" and served Fidel Castro's revolution as a cultural commissar. A mulatto, was proud of his mixed blood and created in his poetry a rich and harmonious mix of the conflicting cultures he sprang from. The search by the European avant garde for renewal in Africa had a great impact Cuba; seized the opportunity and, largely avoiding the exotic and the picturesque, he found a national voice.

The immediate inspiration for this was the son a distinctively Cuban blend of music and dance. best poems in which he contrives to be erudite, popular and humorous were written in the 1930s. Motivos de Son (1930) makes joyful use of mixed rhythm; in Songoro Cesongo (1931) he begins to ponder social questions; and in West Indies Limited (1934) the theme of imperialism becomes paramount. His last substantial book was El Son Entero, Summa Poetica, (1947), which collected all his best work with some new material. was born into a family on July 10 1902 in the city of Camaguey.

For much of the 1930s he studied at Havana University; in 1937 he joined munist party and covered the Spanish Civil War as a magazine reporter. Later he ran unsuccessfully for mayoral and senate offices. After travelling widely in South America tried to return to Cuba in 1953; but Fulgencio Batista refused to let him in, so he began five years of exile in Paris and Buenos Aires. After the revolution of 1959 he returned to Cuba and became a prominent political figure; two years later he made president of the Writers' Union, which holds a firm rein on Cuba's cultural policies. relinquished his power only when his health began to fail in the early 1980s.

He remained silent during the purges of homosexuals in 1960s and 1970s and was never apparently active in the defence of artists who did not toe the party line. Cabrera Infante writes: I first met when was a boy the offices of the party organ' Hoy, on which my father, was a journalist and where always behaved like a poet in residence. When he returned to Cuba in 1959 his verses were set to music by the finest musicians and sung by the finest singers; and when the Writers' Union was he was made its first president. But despite or because of this elevation, art became craft, and his poetry party propaganda. Sometimes he sounded like a hack, as in the poem he addressed to Stalin during the Great Purge, in which he used what he knew of Santeria, Afro-Cuban for witchcraft.

He wrote: Stalin, great captain, May Chango protect you And Yemaya take care of you! The strange thing is that was not a Stalinist. But he was an insecure man, and Soviet- -style Communism offered him a cosy niche. Only one man is free in Cuba, and it was not long before fell foul of Castro. On one of his impromptu forays into his old haunts the revolutionary leader called in at the university, where he praised Alejo Carpentier as a true revolutionary writer so ing, so fine. When one of the students asked Castro about he said: "'That's a lazybones.

He only writes a poem a year. He's probably the best paid in the world, and we cannot afford The atmosphere became one of a poetical lynching party. Some students produced makeshift placards; others improvised a churlish chant: tu no trabajas na! no eres poeta ni na! And they marched down University Hill to the street where lived, chanting and shouting. probably all in jest, but took it badly. In June 1965 I came back to Havana for my mother's funeral.

A few days later I went to the Writers' Union to say hello to Guillen, who was in his office guarded by a beautiful blonde: he always had an eye for blondes. He excused himself for not being with the cemetery, but by fateful coincidence his mother had just died. Then, in a whisper which I thought was still a condolence, he asked me to come with him to the back yard. There, under a spreading mango tree, he asked me in more whispers if I knew of his predicament: Fidel had attacked him publicly. I lied and said I didn't.

"'The son of a bitch sent a mob out to get me! "That son of a bitch who hasn't worked honest day in his life dared call me lazy! You know what? One day he's going to send a mob after you and they will lynch you, I swear! He's worse than Stalin, I tell you! Stalin died a long time ago, but this gangster will outlive us all." Like the surrealist Louis Aragon, became a Communist at the peak of his powers. After that, though the man became very famous in the Spanish-speaking world and in France, and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, the poet went downhill. What is tragic is that at the end of his life he too knew it. Obsessed with posterity and death, his bedside book was not his complete works but a fat volume called The Encyclopeadia of Death. He once read to me a chapter about what really happens to the body after death maggots and all.

At a party in 1961 I introduced an A American publisher to "Ah!" she exclaimed in near ecstasy, "the great Negro poet!" He instantly corrected her: "Negro, no: mulatto." In his novel in the Dust, William Faulkner' Intruder, describes one of his characters as a "proud Negro," and that is what was though he' will correct me from the nether world, and say in his grave voice: "Proud yes, but not a Negro. You see, I'm still a mulatto." Dr Albert Fogg DR ALBERT FOGG, the engineer who has died aged played a crucial role in providing the British motor industry with the research and engineering base it needed to compete in world markets after the 1939-45 War. As the first Director of the Motor Industry Research Association, from 1946 to 1964, "Bertie" Fogg laid the foundations the internationally, respected facilities near Nuneaton, which replaced the "seat of the pants" approach that many manufacturers had considered adequate in the pre-war years. He was responsible for MIRA'S move from Teddington to the much more extensive facilities in the Midlands, which included a high-speed test track. The advanced proving facilities there, shared by all the British motor manufacturers, enabled them to keep technically abreast of modern engineering developments at a time of increasingly fierce international competition.

Albert Fogg was born at Bolton on Feb 25 1909 and was always proud of his Lancastrian roots. He was educated at Manchester University and from 1930 to 1946 served on the scientific staff of the National Physical Laboratory before switching to the motor industry. In 1964 he became director of engineering at Leyland Motors in Lancashire, where he was responsible for many important innovations at a time when British heavy commercial vehicles were still a world force. In particular, he was associated with the pioneering Leyland gas turbine lorry, announced in 1968. At that time it was hoped that the gas turbine would be able to challenge the diesel engine for operating cost and durability in long- haul operations; but its promise was spoiled by development problems and the surge in fuel costs after the world oil crisis.

Fogg also supervised the design and development of the National Bus, which is operated extensively in Britain and overseas. After the merger with the British Motor Corporation Fogg became a director of the British Leyland Motor Corporation and was heavily involved in trying to rationalise the multifarious engineering activities of this sprawling, ill-digested conglo- further on, as we slogged across the great lonely plateau towards Ben Macdui, the second highest peak in Britain, the sun came out warmly and for most of the next few miles we had only little black and white snow buntings for company, while the boys broke off to throw snowballs from icefields which had survived even this summer. From the top almost every mountain in Scotland was laid out below us in perfect visibility, and we were delighted to see that the only one capped in cloud was Ben Nevis. The following day as we walked through the great wilderness of Rothiemurchus, watching crested tits, crossbills, even one distant capercaillie flapping off into the pines, there was again not a soul in sight. When we moved to the far northwest Highlands, Ullapool caused a momentary shock now a busy tourist centre with fast-food shops and a rusty Nigerian ship dominating the harbour.

But a few miles north, despite vastly improved roads, we had once again left the crowds completely behind, as we arrived a delightfully old-fashioned, very serious fishing hotel where the boys could watch golden eagles nesting in the cliff visible from their bedroom window, and red deer came graze a few yards away each evening. This was the part of Scotland I had most dreamt of in the past four decades but despite sun on and valleys, those strange peaks, made out of some of the oldest rocks in the world, remained shrouded in mist for 48 hours. Knowing what a surprise was in store if those clouds should lift was like being in a theatre waiting for the curtain to go up but we filled in the time by journeying up almost empty roads to the northernmost point of the British mainland, Cape Wrath, splendidly wild and remote, accessible only by ferry and mini-bus across 100,000 acres of uninhabited moorland. How many English people, we wondered, ever visit place, its cliffs (including the highest on our island, 850 ft high) again swarming with fulmars and other seabirds? Almost all the other visitors we saw in the last 40 miles were French, German or Dutch. Finally, on the third day, the curtain went up, and in scorching sunshine the beauty of that coast was laid out in all its breathtaking splendour Suilven, Stac Polly and the other amazing mountains, little lochans covered in water lilies.

white beaches as good anything in Greece, shell views from rocky, heather and thyme-clad hillocks across the Summer Isles to Skye and the Outer Hebrides. It was hard to tear ourselves away for the journey back to the Borders, but rarely can the whole of the central Highlands Loch Ness, Ben Nevis, the awesome Pass of Glencoe have been under such brilliant light. Our holiday ended with a drive across to Holy Island, where a soft-spoken Northumbrian fisherman sold us the best crab I ever tasted from the back of his car below Lindisfarne Castle, and we took a boat out to the Farne Islands on a sea so calm that we could sail just a few feet from the low cliffs, watching thousands of puffins, kittiwakes, cormorants and terns, so close we could almost touch them. As we came south, we reflected how lucky we had been to see some of the most beautiful natural scenes in the world under such perfect conditions and what a staggering contrast there had been between the few places where we encountered swarming crowds (Durham, Edinburgh, Fort William) and the immense friendly solitude of almost everywhere else. suppose some people prefer lying on a polluted Mediterranean beach with several hundred thousand others for company but I cannot think why.

He retired in 1974 but continued as a consultant with the National Research Development Corporation and other organisations, and was still involved with technical matters until a few weeks before his death. A man of wide interests, he became enthusiastically involved with the local farming community during the legal battles to acquire the land needed for the MIRA proving ground. Finding himself the chance incumbent of an orchard in the area, he became interested in apple growing and was soon winning prizes at local shows, though with typical modesty he admitted that his apples were much better to look at than to eat. His other recreations included cricket, travel and music. retirement Fogg settled at Poole, not far from his erstwhile chief, Lord Stokes, with whom he went sailing.

Lord Stokes affectionately recalled that as a deckhand on a yacht Bertie Fogg was "inclined to dwell a little on the academic theory rather than urgent practical necessity, as a consequence of which he sometimes suffered unexpected immersion." Fogg was appointed CBE in 1972. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, a son and a daughter. Air Cdre David Francis Layton Edwards. Aged 48. RAF transport specialist.

Commissioned 1960; pilot 105 Argosy' Squadron, Aden, 1962; flying instructor; captained Hercules aircraft, Air Support Command. Overseas exchange postings Canada and America. Stn cdr RAF Lyneham 1985. Staff of Policy and Plans, MoD, 1988; Royal College of Defence Studies 1989. CBE 1988.

Gen Ensley Llewellyn. At Tacoma, Washington, aged 83. Member of Eisenhower's staff during 1939-45 War; founder of Stars and Stripes newspaper for American servicemen; owner of Llewellyn Advertising Agency and manager of state political campaigns..