running. A few months after his death, Trevor Baylis Brands PLC became insolvent, and in early 2019 it ceased trading. Personal life For many years, Baylis lived on Eel Pie Island on the river Thames. He regularly attended jazz performances at the Eel Pie Island Hotel. He was a pipe-smoker and in 1999, received the Pipe Smoker of the Year award from the British Pipesmokers' Council. In March 2010, Baylis stated that he was sexually abused at the age of five by a Church of England curate. This was also covered in his 1999 autobiography, Clock This. In 2013 it was reported that Baylis was in financial difficulties and was living in relative poverty, having made little money from his wind-up power invention's commercialization, having lost legal control of the product after it had been re-engineered by his corporate partners, and he was relying on a small income as a motivational after-dinner speaker. He died on 5 March 2018 at the age of 80 after a fall on a path on Eel Pie Island, having been afflicted with Crohn's disease in his final years. Upon his death he was unmarried and had no living next-of-kin. A funeral was held at Mortlake Crematorium on 13 March 2018, where his body was cremated in a novelty coffin fashioned as the wind-up radio that he had invented. Awards and honours Baylis was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for humanitarian services in the 1997 Birthday Honours, and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to intellectual property. Baylis was awarded 11 honorary degrees from UK universities. He received honorary doctorates from Heriot-Watt University in 2003, Leeds Metropolitan University in 2005. and the University of Northampton in 2009. See also Eel Pie Island Museum List of English inventors and designers References External links Success stories – interview with Baylis on startups.co.uk Biography from WindUpRadio.com "The Greatest Shoe on Earth", Wired magazine, February 2001 BBC newsround interview questions from children Trevor Baylis Biographical information on a" Comedians & Speakers" site Shed of the Year Judge – Trevor Baylis Pipe Smoker of the Year 1999 The Brits Who Designed the Modern World Artsnight – Series 4: 7, BBC Two 1937 births 2018 deaths Academics of Buckinghamshire New University Appropriate technology advocates English inventors Commanders of the Order of the British