He wrote and broadcast extensively on architecture, design and the preservation of the rural landscape. He was a member of the Knickerbocker Club. At Aberdaron he designed the Old Post Office in a vernacular style in 1950. An important later commission was the redesign and rebuilding of Nantclwyd Hall in Denbighshire Clough Williams- Ellis was equally capable in working in the Modernist idiom of the interwar years. This is well demonstrated by the recently restored Caffi Moranedd at Cricieth and the now demolished Snowdon Summit Station of 1934, which was demolished in 2007. In 1958 Williams-Ellis was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for public services". He was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Years Honours List of 1972 "for services to the preservation of the environment and to architecture". At the time, he was the oldest person ever to be knighted. Personal life In 1915 Williams-Ellis married the writer Amabel Strachey. Their eldest daughter, Susan Williams-Ellis (1918–2007), used the name Portmeirion Pottery for the company she created with her husband in 1961. The second daughter, Charlotte Rachel Anwyl Williams-Ellis (1919–2010), was a zoologist and environmentalist with a Cambridge PhD in agricultural science. She married the agriculturalist Lindsay Russell Wallace in 1945, and moved to New Zealand. Their youngest child, Christopher Moelwyn Strachey Williams-Ellis (1923 – 13 March 1944) was killed in the Second World War while serving as a lieutenant in the Welsh Guards; he was killed in action and is buried at Minturno War Cemetery. Welsh language novelist Robin Llywelyn is his grandson, and fashion designer Rose Fulbright-Vickers is his great-granddaughter. Sculptor David Williams-Ellis, the stepfather of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, is his great-nephew. Death Sir Clough Williams-Ellis died in April 1978, aged 94. In accordance with his wishes, he was cremated. Twenty years after his death some of his ashes were placed in a marine rocket that was launched in a New Year's Eve firework display over the estuary at Portmeirion. Works Architecture See List of works by Clough Williams-Ellis Writings Reconography (by student in BEF, pseudodonym Graphite) Pelman (1919 and 4 editions) England and the Octopus, London, Geoffrey Bles (1928) Cottage Building in Cob, Pise, Chalk and Clay: a Renaissance (1919) The Architect, London, Geoffrey Bles (1929) Cautionary Guide to Oxford, Design and Industrial Association (1930), 32 pages Cautionary Guide to St Albans, Design and Industrial Association (1930) 32 pages Laurence