Antony David Carr (1938-2019)

摘要

Tony Carr was born in Dover in February 1938 before being taken, at six months old, to the Falkland Islands where his father was stationed as a customs officer. It was there that he spent the first nine years of his life and Tony considered himself an 'Islander' throughout. After a further three years on another island, Mauritius, where he became acquainted with French language and culture, he returned, at the age of thirteen, to Anglesey and to Menai Bridge. Tony attended Beaumaris Grammar School, and his prodigious and encyclopaedic memory made him the youngest ever 'Brain of Britain' and Top Brain' in 1956, and eventually 'Brain of Brains' - winner of a contest between nine former winners of the series in 1962. He retained this amazing memory to the end. He graduated from the University College of North Wales at Bangor in 1959 and was proud of 'the College' and of the University of Wales of which it was a part. After postgraduate research and training as an archivist at Bangor, he was appointed to the then pioneering archives office of Essex at Chelmsford under F G Emmison.