would end in divorce but Diana continued to live in North Oxford until her death in 2003. In 1974 Smythies married his second wife, Margaret 'Peg' Smythies née Britton (the ex-wife of Barry Pink, a friend to both Wittgenstein and Yorick) by whom Yorick had already had a son Daniel in 1963. Peg would survive Yorick and go on to marry another friend and former student of Wittgenstein, the philosopher Rush Rhees. Peg would also survive Rhees (who died in 1989) dying in May 2014 having lived latterly in Amberley, Gloucestershire, near Stroud. Death Volker A. Munz, insists (contrary to the claims of Ray Monk) that "there were no tragic circumstances" surrounding Smythies death, reporting: "Having been afflicted with emphisema for about five years and knowing not to live much longer he died in 1980." Yorick is registered as dying late that year, in, or near, Chipping Norton. In literature Smythies was the basis for the character Hugo Belfounder in the novel Under the Net (1954) by Iris Murdoch. When Smythies died in 1980 Murdoch wrote the character's death into her novel The Philosopher's Pupil which she was then composing. References External links Yorick Smythies (1917–1980) by Volker A. Munz and Bernhard Ritter (Wittgenstein's Whewell's Court Lectures project) Front Matter (including the Preface and Editorial Introduction) to Wittgenstein's Whewell's Court Lectures: Cambridge, 1938–1941, From the Notes by Yorick Smythies, (2017) Volker A. Munz and Bernhard Ritter (ed.) Lectures on Knowledge ⟨Easter Term 1938), Wittgenstein's Whewell's Court Lectures: Cambridge, 1938–1941, From the Notes by Yorick Smythies, (2017) Volker A. Munz and Bernhard Ritter (ed.) Yorick Smythies' review of Russell's History 1917 births 1980 deaths People educated at Harrow School 20th-century English philosophers English librarians