CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1963. Bobby Bevan was something of a mentor to the New York City-based advertising executive David Ogilvy who frequently stayed at Boxted during his trips to England. In 1948 Bevan, had established Ogilvy as head of a new advertising agency in New York. This was to become Ogilvy, Benson and Mather. In 1964, it merged with David's brother Francis's agency to become Ogilvy and Mather International Inc. Ogilvy once said of Bevan "I was in awe of him but Bevan never took notice of me!" Mani Ayer, former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather (India) said of him: "Bevan was not a man who would share his experience or knowledge with you. He was an intellectual and came from a well-known family of painters and he preferred to live like an aristocrat." this should be read in conjunction with that of the artist John Nash, who had known him since 1913: 'Robert Bevan was a significant figure to us both and was, therefore, a bond between us. This was Bobby's "cosy side" – he could be moody and at times rather formidable but beneath this one sensed always his intense loyalty to his real friends mixed with an affection that his undemonstrative nature hardly allowed him to disclose. I like to think I partook of these latter qualities. He was a very private person, talking little about his personal deeds even less about his personal thoughts and worries. His sympathy to those in distress, was almost feminine in its understanding.' The Bevan Collection When Bevan's mother died in 1952 she left Bobby and his sister Halszka (Mrs Charles Baty) an equal share in a large collection of family paintings and many works by their parents, as well as their Camden Town Group friends and other associates, including Walter Sickert, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Bobby and his sister made a substantial gift of their father's work to the Ashmolean Museum in 1957 and for the remainder of his life he applied all his business experience to the promotion of Robert and Stanisława Bevan. A series of exhibitions were held throughout the 1960s. In 1965 Bobby produced a short book on his father, which until recently was the only work available. He died of stomach cancer on 20 December 1974. Although he had no children of his own his widow retained the complete