Richard St Barbe Baker - A Personal View by Mary Heron

摘要

In recognition of the 25th anniversary of the death of Richard St Barbe Baker, we reproduce here a personal recollection of our founder from Mary Heron as told to Edward James: "Uncle Richard" as we were brought up to call him, was a great friend of my father Vernon Barran (1875 -1943). They were at Cambridge together both before and after the First World War, and on the comparatively rare occasions when he was in England during his working life he often stayed with us in Campden Hill Square, North Kensington. There was always great excitement when he was with us, my mother was sometimes inclined to think too much. In returning from West Africa in 1929 he brought us an African grey parrot which became an excellent talker and entertained us for over40 years.