foxes away), two goats, three bee hives, and cycling to the one small Dundry shop. Food and much else was rationed during the war, with some still rationed to 1954. Their manual pre-dial phone had the number Chew Magna 81. The hamlet had candles and Aladdin lamps until electricity and gas, also delayed by WWII, came in 1953 and the 1960s. The house had a black-and-white TV from 1959. Lawrence was a member of the wartime Dundry Home Guard and the night East Dundry fire-watching team. His duties, with his education and typist-work-availability, included the publishing of their responsibilities and shifts. He was a founding member and a chairman of the Friends of the Bristol Art Gallery, giving the Jacob Epstein bronze Kathleen to the gallery. He was on the founding committee of Bristol's modernist Arnolfini Gallery. The two built a collection of 1930s to 1970s modern art and enjoyed water-colour painting on holidays, often driving and camping with their son in Scotland and across Europe after WWII. Doris died of colon cancer in their East Dundry home in September 1965, with Lawrence and son in and out from working in the garden. In 1980, Lawrence broke his hip when he fell in their garden: the surgeons muddled his operation, sadly moving him after a second operation non-compos mentis'' to Winford hospital where he died months later on 16 April 1980. References 1898 births 1980 deaths Scottish botanists People from Banff and Buchan Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of Aberdeen People educated at Aberdeen Grammar School