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I a a a a a a a THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1990 SOCIAL NEWS COURT AND SOCIAL tenant Colonel Smail on Court Circular Battalion assumiung and command Lieutenant of the Colo- 6th nel Whiteman on a relinquishBUCKINGHAM PALACE ing the appointment. April 9th By Lord command of The Queen, in Wait- the The Princess of Wales, Patron, Somerleyton (Lord the Guinness Trust, will attend a ing) was present at Heathrow centenary luncheon at Natwest Airport, London, this afternoon Hall, Old Broad Street, EC2, on upon the departure of The Presi- April 19. dent of Vanuatu and Mrs Tima- The Princess kata and bade farewell to Their National Association of Victim Royal, Patron, Excellencies on behalf of Her Support Schemes, will attend the Majesty. "Victims at Work" Conference BUCKINGHAM PALACE at Commonwealth Institute April 9th on April 30 This Royal, morning President, The Save the Princess Chil- TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS dren Fund, attended a meeting of Mr Harry Mortimer, musician, is the Council of the Save the Chil- 88 today; Mr AM Crawley, dren Fund at Mary Datchelor Chairman, London Weekend House, Condorove Lane, Camber- Television, 1967-71, is well, Earl of Granard 75; Lord Morton Her Royal Highness was of Shuna, a Senator of the attended by the Hon Mrs Legge- College Justice in Scotland, Bourke. 60; Mr Omar Sharif, actor, 58; Mr Robert Rhodes James, MP, YORK HOUSE historian, 57; Mr Paul Theroux, April 9th writer, 49; Earl De La Warr 42; The Duke of Kent, Colonel-in- and Sir David Moorcroft, former Chief of the Royal Regiment of world 5,000 metres record Fusiliers, today received Lieu- holder, 37.

FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES Mr A Fitzalan Howard and Mr A Acciarri and Miss Johnsen Miss The engagement is announced The engagement is announced between Richard Andrew, son of between Antony, son of Mr and Lord and Lady Michael Mrs Pietro Acciarri, of Nina, daughter of Mr Fitzalan Howard, and Peter Johnsen. Duc de Magenta and the Hon Drummond of Megginch The engagement is announced between Philippe, Marquis de Mac Mahon, Duc de Magenta, son of the late Duc de Magenta and of the Duchesse de Magenta, and daughter of Captain Humphrey Drummond of Megginch and Baroness Strange. Hunter and Mr3 Miss Goddard engagement is announced between Jonathan, elder son of Dr Hunter, of Ravenglass, Cumbria, and Mrs A Hunter, of St Bees, Cumbria, and Victoria, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs ME Goddard, of South Croydon, Surrey. Mr Weir and Miss The engagement is announced between Graham, son of Mrs Marion Weir and the late James Weir, of Glasgow, and Rosalyn, daughter of Mrs Diana and the late Mr Albert of Calgary, Canada. Recent Service appointments Recent Service appointments include: ROYAL NAVY COMMODORES: DC Hebron ADC to The Queen; RF James ADC to HM The Queen.

CAPTAINS: JJ Howard MoD London; AM Morrice ADC to HM The Queen. COMMANDERS: JH Morgan MoD London; PS Booth Portsmouth NB; DR Charlton Neptune; MH Farr MoD Kyle of Lochalsh; MA James Staff of CINCFLEET: DR Morgan MoD London; AJK Nicol Neptune; Stanhope MoD London; RJ Tempest Ordnance Board (in the rank of Captain); RAS Turner Staff of CINCFLEET. SURGEON COMMANDER: MW Weston Nelson. CHAPLAIN: CJ Luckraft Staff of FO Gibraltar; -B Renfrey-Drake. RETIREMENTS: COMMANDERS: MS Pringle; DJS Squier; DJ Thornton.

ARMY BRIGADIERS: JGW Dean Comd Arty 3 Armd Div; PA' Tuffnell Comd Ed HQ BAOR. COLONEL: PJ Bambury MoD. LIEUTENANT COLONELS: EBL Armitstead Coldm Gds to MS; MA Davidson PARA to JFHQ; DM Gill RE Team; RB Smith SIGNALS TO HO AFNORTH; RP Steptoe and RCB; RJ Theis RMP CO HQ SIB UK; DG Thomas and HQ SW Dist; KM Tutt RCT -CO 7 Tk Tptr Regt; CNB Wellwood RRF HQ ham; RIM MacArthur RE UKLE; Gilchrist RTR AMICS ShrivenRETIREMENTS: COLONEL: MK0 Dewar late RGJ. ROYAL AIR FORCE WING COMMANDERS: Springett MoD London; Jones 1001 SU Oakhanger; RH Day HQSTC; SWS Yarrow HQ 2 ATAF; RB Richards MoD AFD. Ever watchful The Rev Hugh Allen, rector of Old Cleeve, near Watchet, Somerset, will be watching over his parishioners for the next few centuries after builders repairing a 16th century church tower carved his face on a gargoyle.

Visitors welcome The 11th Prinknash Abbey, Glos, since 1972 century, when the community moved to a new building nearby, is to open to visitors from May 21 after a £150,000 restoration. Droxford, Hampshire, and Nathalie, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs of Westmount, Montreal, Canada. Mr A McD Heath and Miss Norris The engagement is announced between Andrew McDonald, son of Mr and Mrs Peter Heath, of Parkes, NSW, Australia, and Rachel Mary, daughter of Mr and Mrs Christopher Norris, of Purley, Surrey. MrIW Edgar and Miss Hellings The engagement is announced between Ivan, son of Mrs Edith Edgar and the late Mr Foster Edgar, of Omagh, County Tyrone, and Elizabeth, daughter of Mr and Mrs Stuart Hellings, of Helpston, Cambs. WEDDING Mr A O'Brien and Miss Cowley The marriage took place on Saturday, April 7, between Mr Donough O'Brien, son of the late Mr and Mrs (Toby) O'Brien, and Miss Elizabeth (Liz) Cowley, daughter Lt-Gen Sir John and Lady Cowley, of Boldre, Lymington, Hants.

MEETING Royal Over-Seas League Herr Helmut Wegner, Minister Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, was guest speaker at meeting of the Discussion Circle of the Royal Over-Seas League held last evening at Over-Seas House, St James's. His da subject was "The Unification of Germany in a Changing Economical and Political Environment." Mrs Elizabeth Cresswell presided. Draws let Manor triumph in Young Masters Ilan Manor from Israel has won the Young Masters open international chess tournament at Oakham School. start of the final round he half a point ahead of wase England's David Norwood, Tiviakov of the Soviet Union, Blatny Czechoslovakia and his opponent Hracek, also of Czechoslovakia. Hracek, playing white, attacked strongly but Manor defended well and when he had achieved a superior position, offered a draw which was accepted, leaving him on sufficient for a clear first, as all his nearest rivals also drew.

The British champion, Michael Adams, defeated the 13-yearold Soviet prodigy Pyotr Svidler to reach six points. Round 9: Hracek Manor Tiviakov Norwood Anand Blatny Akopyan Badea Adams 1 Svidler Kosic 1 Chabanon Stratil 0 Ulibin Fishbein 1 Matveyeva Luther 0 Ward Aticella 0 Schlosser Arakhamia 1 Mortazavi 0. Final scores: Manor 7, Hracek, Norwood, Blatny, Tiviakov 64, Anand, Adams, Akopyan, Badea, Kosic 6. TODAY'S EVENTS Princess Royal addresses the World Ministerial Summit at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, 10.45. Queen's Life Guard mounts, Horse Guards, 11.

British Library: Mark Gisbourne, "Early printing scholar," 2.30. National Gallery: Easter Round Robin, 1. St Martin's, Ludgate Hill: Europa Singers, 1.15. St Michael's, Cornhill: Performance of Sir John Stainer's "'The Crucifixion," 1. Theatres- P31 Dartmouth passing out parade HER ROYAL HIGHNESS The Princess Royal took the salute at Lord High Admiral's Divisions held at Britannia Royal Naval College on April 5 1990 when the following officers under training passed from the College: Acting Sub Lieutenants: CR Askew; SK Beck; CR Benett; Bowhay; SM Clark; KS SN Copeland; CC Deacon; SM Dudley; Gibbons; MW Graham; Gray; BJ Hall; PD Heaslip; NC Hill; PN Jackson; CA Jones; EC Lees; SA Mardlin; AJ McDonald; AS McNeish; AR Millard; AB Nairn; EP O'Shea; JE Scollay; AG Smith; JJ Tiffany; NS Wright.

Midshipmen: RJ Adams; AC Barnett; DH Bolton; RC Brent; PC Carroll; RW Clarke; JH Coles; NA Collins; AD Corney; CA Cosens; Cubbage; MJ Dennis; PG Dowsett; JL Farrington; IR Finn; PG Game; AS Goddard; DT Goldsmith; AG Halewood; MA Hayles; RJ Howse; JA Johns; CC Johnson; AE Jones; Jose; HC Kelly; GP Knock; RE Laverty; JD Lett; MS Macleod; QS Matthews; SM Mills; JH Minter; MC Morton; OG Nichol; SE Parry; JC Pheasant; DJ Phillips; SE Pink; PP Pitcher; DG Preece; SM Rawson; MT Reed; Richardson; TR Rodwell; AD Simpson; Sillers; AN Skelley; AM Southwell; CP Swan; DA Teasdale; SF Toon; WJ Warrender; SD Wilkie; Wood. Supplementary List: Acting Sub Lieutenants: NJ Allen; MT Clark; GT Collingham; CJ Cowx; Hardy; MJ Lloyd; DJ McKnight; JD Mumford; FD Murphy; JW O'Flaherty; PN Olive; RL Payne; DJ Sayers; BJ Smith; MD Southorn; IR Thomson; RD Watt; DR Whittle; Woolley. Midshipmen: AJ Beautyman; ID Berey; SJ Blackburn; DA Brown; TJ Corbett; Easby; TP Hill; RM Jones; AP Kohler; FG Picture: MICHAEL WEBB Ops Room revisited Jean Mills (left) and Joan Porter, who 50 years ago in the Battle of Britain Operations Room tracked the movements of Allied and enemy planes across the skies, yesterday met some of the pilots they helped to guide, in a reconstruction of their wartime HQ (right) at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Cambs. Mrs Mills, 69, said: team spirit was amazing. We were all rooting for our boys to pull through." Spotlight on little-known talent PAINTERS a million miles from being household names led Christie's million Old Master Picture sale yesterday, with just 14 per cent unsold.

One of only three known works of Juan Bautista de Espinosa (c 1590 to 1626), Still Life of a Table loaded with silver-gilt salvers, opulent glasses and cut oranges, sold for a double estimate £605,000 to a telephone bidder. Records were also set for the obscure 18th century talent, Pierre-Hubert Subleyras, for a portrait of a Young Hungarian Prince (as we deduce from his red costume), at and, long overdue, for the view painter Antonio Joli, whose Castel Ponte Sant' Angelo, Rome, went for twice modest expectation at £352,000. What conclusion we must draw from the purchase by the Rubens House, Antwerp, for a low estimate £330,000 of a pic- By Godfrey Barker ture of Peasants on their Way to Market, is unclear. This is a long disputed work whose market life started in 1815 as a Rubens, was perceived in 1824 to share the hand of Snyders in the animal painting, was reduced in 1956 to Snyders and since 1972 is shared between Snyders and Johann Boeckhorst, 1989 idea that Jan' Wildens added the landscape. Rubens House is out to restore the 1815 status of this watery vision it will be a surprise.

Old Master Drawings were also heavily Christie's, with an Annibale, Cartree fetching and the rest of the sale performing solidly on estimate. Bonhams, after a flooded out Sunday afternoon view, obtained a remarkable £151,602 WAY OF THE WORLD return" on their money as soon as possible? Mammoth snore ONE of the more baffling features of Test Match cricket as it is being currently played in the West Indies is the competition between the two sides to see which can bowl the least number of overs in an hour. So generally is this practice now accepted that yesterday morning a leading English cricket commentator was defending it by saying that "it is the only way for England to stay in the Spectators are treated to the spectacle of interminable rearrangements of the fielders, conferences between the players, bowlers walking more and more slowly back to start their run-up any tactic imaginable which will reduce the 2 2. 2 2 3 time available for the players actually to have to play cricket. None of this is apparently against the Laws of Cricket, and one can only suppose that they find playing the game so depressing that they simply want to play as little of it as possible.

Soon no doubt they will discover that there is not actually a rule which forbids players from going to sleep on the field, and spectators will have nothing to watch in return for their money men in deckchairs "snoring freely round the while the batsmen patiently stand there waiting for something to happen. Eventually, after the first Test Match in which neither side can actually bring itself to bowl a single ball, a new gen- OBITUARIES Peter Wright VC PETER WRIGHT, VC, who has died aged 73, won a Victoria Cross near Salerno on Sept 25 1943 as a company ser-major with the 3rd Battalion the Coldstream Guards. When the Allies landed on Sept 9, the Germans quickly concentrated five divisions in the area and almost pushed the invasion force back into the sea. During the counter-attack Wright's battalion attacked the Pagliarolli feature, a steep wooded hill, before the right-hand company reached the crest it was met by spandau (heavy machine-gun) and mortar fire and all the officers were killed or wounded. When he saw that the company was held up, Wright went forward and, finding that there were no officers left, immediately took charge and crawled forward to see what was opposing the advance.

He discovered that three spandau posts were facing them. He collected a section and, having positioned it where it could give covering fire, went forward himself and attacked each post with hand grenades and bayonet, silencing each in turn. Wright then led the company on to the crest but, finding that enemy fire made that position untenable, led them a short way down the hill and up to the objective from a different direction. "Entirely regardless of enemy the citation stated, "which was very heavy, CSM Wright then reorganised what was left of the company and deployed it to consolidate the position. Soon afterwards the enemy launched a counterattack which was successfully beaten off.

"Later, with complete disregard of enemy shellfire on the area of company headquarters and the reverse slopes of the hill, and of fire from the commanding gun slopes on the left flank of the position, he brought extra ammunition and distributed it to the company. "It is due to this Warrant Officer's superb disregard of the enemy's fire, his magnificent leadership, and his outstanding, heroism throughout that his battalion succeeded in capturing and maintaining its hold on this very important The original citation was for a Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Wright received this from King George VI in June 1944. But the King was not satisfied that the DCM was the appropriate reward for such a remarkable feat and on a visit to Italy asked Gen Alexander check all the facts the action and report to him A personally. As a result the DCM was cancelled and the 4 VC bestowed instead. Peter Harold Wright was born at Mettingham, Suffolk, on Aug 10 1916 and educated locally.

He worked on his father's farm until the age of 20 and then enlisted in the Coldstream Guards in 1936. Subsequently served in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, North Africa and Italy. After returning from Italy he was posted to training battalion in England, where his duties included guarding Win- ston Churchill at Chequers. He retired from the 1945 and returned to the family farm, later becoming a tenant farmer on the estate of Lord Tollemache. 4 He was wounded only once, above the right eye at Tobruk, but had a miraculous escape early in the Salerno battle when a shell landed close to him and killed his second-incommand and his soldier servant, and blew an arm off the company commander.

Of the VC Wright said: "I was dumbfounded. I really could not believe it. I was only doing my duty and what I had been trained to do. There was no thought of fear, it was just instinct." A painting of the VC action by Peter Archer now hangs in Wellington Barracks. After the war Wright was in great demand, his farming duties permitted, as a lively and entertaining speaker.

A 2 quiet, compassionate and very modest man, he was devoted to his family and widely known as 2 a staunch friend: He is survived by his wife, Mollie, a son and two daughters. FF 2 Viscount Barrington with (for this kind of sale) a modest 35 per cent bought in for Pictures Hot From the Easel at British Art Schools, 1984-90. Graduate artists are in such instant demand on the booming market for Contemporary Art that talented students can now hope for £500 to £3,500 overnight foappened better work. This acress the board yesterday, the highest rewards falling (in no special order) on Alison Cross, Andrew Crocker, Peter Kennelly, Patrisha Lawlor, Sophie Knight, Elpida Georgiou, Laura Matthews, Joanna Green, David Rodgers, Anne Hodgers and Steven Marshall. Miss Georgiou, still at the Royal Academy schools, earned top prize of £3,520 for her very Symbolist Misfortune seemed to befall some works with a strong smack of the 1960s about them.

Cecil's little joke? NOW that it has become customary for almost every newspaper to print elaborate "hoax" news items on April Fool's Day, an unfortunate side-effect is that, for a considerable time afterwards, one continues to read almost everything that appears as if it were just another "April One item which fell firmly into this category was the report that the Transport Secretary Mr Parkinson is looking into ways of providing a Government subsidy of f1 billion to the scheme to build a rail link between London and the Channel Tunnel. Surely, was one's first reaction, this story cannot be true, since Section 42 of the 1987 Channel Tunnel Act prohibits any Government subsidy for such a purpose. But then one reads on how the Government is planning to "get round" the problem. It intends to "launder" the subsidy by pretending that its purpose will be to "bring improvement to services to Kent commuters which would be unachievable by any other One looks at the date on the paper which reveals such appalling skulduggery, convinced that it can only be April 1. But no, it is April 7, and the report is apparently quite serious.

Furthermore, one reads that British Rail's private sector partners in the scheme are apparently now confident of "around an 18 per cent return on What we are being asked to believe, in short, is that the Government may be proposing to break its own rules, enshrined in statute, in order to force taxpayers to pay for a hugely unpopular scheme, which otherwise would be totally uneconomic and at the end of the day, the private companies which benefit from this subsidy are quite openly hoping to make an enormous profit. Can Mr Parkinson please reassure us at once that this is only a wicked, if belated April Fool? Alternatively, can he please inform readers of this column how they can share in an investment which will ensure them "an 18 per cent THE 11th VISCOUNT BARRINGTON, who has died aged 81, may have had the endearingly eccentric appearance of a peer from the pages of PG Wodehouse but underneath was a multi-faceted man of considerable accomplishment unwavering principle. In his younger days, as Patrick Barrington, he was a poet, publisher and puppeteer of delightful wit and ingenuity. His Songs of a Sub-Man, a collection of comic verse originally written for Punch, has become a classic of the genre. An adept adaptor of Victorian and Elizabethan metre, he combined fantastic invention with metrical clarity to inspire such trills as: I had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity, For whom I developed a remarkable affinity He used to live in lodgings with myself and Arthur Purvis, And we all went up together for the Diplomatic Service In later years Barrington became a leading figure in the "pro-life" movement.

He was a dedicated opponent of abortion legislation, and drafted the original aims and objects of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, of which he was chairman. He was also a founding member of the committee of the Human Rights Society, working to ensure that euthanasia did not reach the statute book. Barrington was a passionate champion of the right to life of both the young and the was, in his view, the same principle at risk. One of his most telling contributions to a in the House of Lords was a rejoinder to the feminist maxim: "A A woman has the right to do what she likes with her own He said: "The only maxim of that kind is, I think, a more pernicious one would be that a man has a right to do what he likes with his own body. Of course he has not.

He has not the right to rape a young girl; he has not the right to mug old lady; he has not the right to assault a referee on the football field." His ceaseless campaigning made him one of the best-loved characters in the House. Many of Barrington's dicta in the Chamber have passed into legend. There was, for example, an exchange with the Methodist peer Lord Soper, who had said: "I am at this moment responsible for 14 pregnant girls. Barrington observed: "Unlike the noble Lord Soper, I am not responsible for 15 illegitimate girls "I meant that I visit them," interrupted Soper. "I beg the noble Lord's pardon," said Barrington.

In moving an amendment to the Nullity of Marriage Bill in 1971, Barrington absorbed the House by recalling how, in the 1930s, a male servant in his sister's employ, who was understood to have changed sex before, announced that he was changing sex again. "He left with the cook-housekeeper and they went as a married couple, but as to, who was which I cannot said Barrington. "I understand they were both interchangeable." But perhaps the most memorable occasion was during a debate on the Abortion Bill, when uttered the immortal "Like most of Barrington, your Lordships, I was born." He did not explain to a curious eration of players may emerge who find that it is actually quite fun to get on with playing the game. The perfect exam THE National Curriculum Council is apparently about to announce a "core skills" to be tested as part of a new in These will include "speaking a foreign language, computer use, social skills, communication, numeracy, problem solving and the dangers of According to Mr MacGregor, the Education Secretary, the exam will help Britain's "teenagers compete in a European jobs I have to underline that this is not yet another April Fool story, any more than is the report from America that up to 60 per cent of pupils in American schools now regard cheating in exams as perfectly acceptable, and that learning how to cheat is "a good preparation for adult If this deplorable fashion is going to spread over here, obviously the situation is fast approaching where the most ingenious way to frustrate the cheats will be for the NCC to include "cheating at exams" along with "problem solving" as one of the "life skills" to be tested in its new A-level. The joy of this scheme would be that it would provide the ultimate foolproof test of whether the pupils had done their homework because, bey definition, any pupil who failed would obviously not have learnt to cheat properly, and would therefore deserve to fail.

The result might not exactly help "teenagers to compete in a European jobs but certainly it would at last have produced that elusive Holy Grail of our age the perfect examination subject. Impeccable logic "AN ocean-going liner was a logical idea. It is the only thing Birmingham does not An "independent adviser to British on the plan to build a hotel next to Birmingham Airport shaped like replica of the Mauretania. Peter Simple II House how the remainder of Their Lordships had originated. Patrick William Daines Barrington was born on Oct 29 1908, the only of Bernard Barrington, the merchant banker (a partner of Sir Lawrence "Jonah" Jones, who paints a perceptive picture of him in his evocative memoirs Georgian Afternoon) and a grandson of the 9th Viscount Barrington.

wYoung Pat to his or family "Pip" as was he educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. On coming down from the university he dabbled in diplomacy for a spell as an honorary at the British Embassy in Berlin; but his unstoppable flow of conversation and untidy appearance did not find favour with the formidable Ambassador, Sir Horace Rumbold. Barrington was called to the Bar by Inner Temple but found the ideal outlet for his humorous wordplay as a contributor to Punch in the 1930s. Among hundreds of sentimental love ditties, which bore such titles as My Love is a Theosophist and I Sent My Love a Coconut, perhaps his most celebrated was Take Me in Your Arms, Miss Moneypenny-Wilson, which concluded: Cold, cold, cold is the melancholy mould, Cold as the foam-cold sea, Colder than the shoulder of a neolithic boulder, Are the shoulders you show to me. Cruel, cruel, cruel is the flame to the fuel, Cruel is the axe to the tree, But crueller and keener than a coster's concertina, Is your cruel, cruel scorn to me.

At the outbreak of the Second World War Barrington enlisted in the Royal Artillery. He cut an unlikely figure as a soldier, but it was typical of him to make many lasting friendships in the ranks before he received a commission. Like the true aristocrat he was, Barrington always treated everyone the same; he was as happy to discuss his views on life with a cabbie as with a Fellow of All Souls. Subsequently his gift for words led to a more appropriate contribution to the war effort at the decoding centre at Bletchley. Besides his official duties he kept his fellow boffins amused with revues and entertainments of his own devising.

After the war Barrington worked in publishing becoming one of the early partners in Weidenfeld Nicolson and toured with his own puppet show of the Nativity, for which he not only wrote the script and music but made and manipulated the puppets, as well as engineering extraordinarily effective coups de In 1960 he succeeded his uncle in the viscountcy and took the Liberal Whip in the House of Lords. He first became involved in "pro-life" work when he heard the Earl of Longford speaking against Lord Silkin's Abortion Bill in 1966. "Is this a Catholic show?" he asked Lord Longford afterwards. are heretics allowed to join in?" As chairman the Society for Protection of Unborn Children, Barrington was instrumental in recruiting to the cause such luminaries as Malcolm Muggeridge and Alan Bourne (the central figure in the key "Bourne Case" of 1938, after risk to medi- cal health was accepted as grounds for legal abortion). He was also a trustee charity Human Rights.

Barrington exemplified his own principles in facing his final illness which cruelly deprived him of the power of speech with characteristic courage and forbearance. He never married; the title died with him. Sir Malcolm Pasley writes: Patrick Barrington was indeed a wonderful man. Not only was his mind as full of wonders as Aladdin's Cave, but he always retained a sense of childlike wonder at the mystery and sanctity of human life. This made him especially good with young children, whose serious amusement he.

devoted himself with infinite care and patience. Arranging a puppet show, constructing a geometrical figure out of cardboard, or inventing a special song to illustrate a piano lesson were just as important as preparing a speech to the House on a subject dear to him. He will no doubt be most widely remembered for his humorous verse, which secured him a lasting place in a great English tradition. Every poem. he ever published ought to be tracked down and treasured.

He was a master of gentleand amiable burlesque, and, sometimes he turned his banter against himself: I'm only a Second Trombone But one of these days you' ll find Some hint of the passionate human thoughts That burn in a trombone's mind. They're thoughts that would stultify a bassoon And stagger a clarinet; But they're only a Second Trombone's, girls And nobody knows them yet. Patrick was so steeped in poetry that it became part of his daily life. His method of timing a boiled egg, for instance, was to recite a fixed number of the quatrains of Omar Khayyam. He could easily have recited the whole lot, for he seemed to have the entire corpus of English poetry at his command.

Feed him a line from Browning, and he would simply go on until asked to stop and sometimes a bit further. He was a man of many talents, particularly artistic ones, all of which he used generously to give delight, and sensitive guidance, to others. Sustained by a strong religious faith, he was the most selfless, the least worldly-wise of men. All those who knew him have been left very much the poorer. Harry Bridges.

At San Francisco, aged 88. Trade unionist. Helped found the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, which he led from 1934 to 1977. In 1934, after two dockers were killed and 100 wounded in a clash with 1,000 police, Bridges made a successful call for a general strike in Sans Francisco. Born in Australia, he jailed and threatened with expulsion from America for alleged Communist conspiracy.

Ronald Reed. Aged 70. Lecturer in the Department of Leather Industries at Leeds University 1951-80. Internationally known for study of ancient leathers and parchments, he was called in to examine the Dead Sea Scrolls when they were found in 1947. Ronald Evans.

In Arizona, aged 56. mand module in 1972, on the last Astronaut. Pilot of the Apollo 17 commanned flight to the Moon. Lois Pittom. Aged 71.

Under-Secretary, Health and Safety Executive, Department of Employment, 1975-78. CB 1979. Maginn; JC Maunder; McNutt; Mountain; SP Nicholas; CB Porter; IH Quick; CJ Redman; Roberts; SA Rothney; PA Yeomans. Supplementary List (Air): Acting Sub Lieutenants: JP Bowers; RE Brunswick; NB Clarke; GC Davies; GJ Davison; TJ Elridge; PF Hannigan; DA Ridd. Midshipmen: PR Blackburn; JC Dickson; DL Laird; GI Lawrence; MG Le Lay; Matthews; DS McCamley; CM Money; JP Phillips; RJ Taylor; AD Tite; LV Tooze; GP Townsend; GS Wicking.

Instructor Officers: Lieutenants: JC Campbell; AP Colvin; CJ Hutchinson; SA Knight; Morris; AJ Moys; PT Murphy; MW Philip; RB Smith; CR Spenser; DJ Swannick; Tench; Woodley; MS Young. Acting Sub Lieutenants: SM Farrell; RS Kendrick. Special Duties List: Acting Sub Lieutenants: LJ Abernethy; Barron; EG Bath; TJ Billington; PL Chilcott; SJ Clements; WM Durning; DA Hall; Hughes; SG Jobling; MD Johnson; MJ Kyme; MP Miley; MF Moreby; SL Parton; DL Roberts; SP Roberts; Thomas; MS Willis; IH Wrightson. WRNS Officers: Probationary Third Officers: FC Bateman; JC Bolt; SM Bullock; JA Dunthorne; Evans; NA Fouch; EL Hayman; FA Laughton; JM Moss; JM O'Connor; LJ Palfrey; SE Redman; CD Robinson; NJ Robinson. International Midshipmen: Midshipmen: MS Abdul Salam; AB Abdullah Essa; AS Ali Salin; Blades; AS Ediriwira; AK Faisal Hamad; Iqbal; AK Jinadasa; RA Juma Moosa; RB Kean; AA Khalfan Nasser; AA Khamis Khalfan; SA Khamis Salim; MA Mohammed Sarour; HA Nasar Khalifa; Othman; SA Said Hamed; AF Said Nasser; SA Suleman Mohamed; AU Taylor; AJ Yahia Mossade..