Herry's Archives

Herry was extremely fortunate in being able to travel widely from the early days of his work with Thomas Miller, first to Italy (to review some 'grain cases' which were due to heard in the Italian courts with the Genoa lawyers Mordiglia . There he met Aldo Mordiglia and his sons as well as ) Then to Yugoslavia with Bill Birch Reynardson (and often his wife Nik) to meet the shipowners, lawyers and insurers there. His first contacts in Yugoslavia were with Marin Kruzecevic (Zagreb) Dr Hrvoje Kacic and his wife Jenny (Dubrovnik) Dr Tomasic (Belgrade Dr Zoran Radovic (Belgrade) Tomo Badurina (and his wife Linda and son Berislav) (Zagreb) Robert Stude (Zagreb) Bare Terzic (Split) Slobo Anicic (Split) Peter Musladin (Dubrovnik) Michel Dorcic (Rijeka)

EULOGY TO ALBERT MELVILLE WATSON Delivered by his daughter Penny Crittle during his funeral service held on 21st October 2002 It is my honour to stand before you today to talk about Patience’s loving husband, the father of Prue, Andrew and myself, the grandfather of our children and the great grandfather of their children. And of course the special friend of all of you present. This family comes here today to acknowledge our special man. Whilst we grieve for our loss we wish to acknowledge it is our grief and that Dad lived the life he wished to lead – in many ways a blessed life. He did not suffer and wished to leave us when he did. He told me before he died that he had had a ‘great innings’ and this is the truth. To us this ceremony is one of celebration. Dad was a man of many fine qualities and many achievements. For me his most extraordinary quality was a total lack of avarice whilst living in a culture in which the dominant paradigm is one of greed – more and more, bigger an...