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Nick in his Irish tweed cap and jacket. His tweed cap was placed in the church at his Memorial Service My dear old friend Nick Duke died on 29th January 2013 after suffering for years from MS and other health problems. A memorial service was held for him at St Peter' Church, Bishops Waltham on 19th February attended by over 200 family and  friends. This is his Eulogy.                                                                 Nick Duke Thomas James Nicholas Duke – ‘Nick’ – was born at home in Fisher’s Pond to Tom and Ann Duke on 26 th June 1945, following his sisters Jenny and Georgie. Tom was then working in the family milling business that had been started by his father James Duke in 1895 when he bought the Abbey Mill at Bishop’s Waltham on one of the Nine Great Ponds which once provided f...

Herbert Fortescue Lawford - HF Lawford -  was born in 1851, the son of Thomas Acland Lawford, and the elder brother of General Sir Sydney Lawford and first cousin to my grandfather, Vincent Adrian. He attended Repton School and left in April 1868 and went up to Edinburgh University in October at the age of seventeen. He remained there for two years studying Logic, Rhetoric & English Literature, and Natural Philosophy but then left in 1870 without graduating, as seems to have been quite common with gentleman undergraduates at the time. He appears to have completed two years of a four year Master of Arts course although his principal activities seem to have been shooting, fishing and playing rackets. His study at Edinburgh was akin to the completion of his schooling. To the best of our knowledge, Herbert then joined the family firm of Steer, Lawford and Cuerton, (stockbrokers), became a partner in 1874 and pursued a career at the London Stock Exchange ...