Herry's Trinity House Retirement Speech
This is an extract from Herry's speech at his retirement party at Trinity House on 13th April 2006 dealing with his partners and colleagues. The full speech is available on his Journal here . Amongst those who have flattered my career are of course a number of my colleagues, several of them who have already passed into that amazing post-Miller state in which they look 20 years younger than they did before they retired. I can't avoid mentioning two or three key people, although many more than that qualify. First Bill Birch Reynardson, whose unwise invitation while shooting with my father to send young Herry up to Millers instead of to the bar was the luckiest break in my life, as well as his wonderful tutelage, both in matters of business and also in how to travel in style in places like Yugoslavia and India – not to mention Bahgdad, I have never forgotten. The late Frank Ledwith, of course, who taught all of us who joined Miller's in the '60s, indoctrin...