More London pride

To: Retort

Allow me to circulate some flourishes to add to Forrester's Porter obit; 
these by Bill Bynum at the Wellcome Institute,from the Grauniad notice.

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Roy was the only child of a Bermondsey jeweller. Although the home was 
without books, his early intellectual precocity led to a family myth that 
he was a changeling...

The Making Of Geology (1977), became the first of more than 100 books that 
he wrote or edited...

What also developed was an exhausting schedule of public lectures, and 
frequent broadcasting on both radio and television. He wrote effortlessly, 
although the final version would often bear little resemblance to the first 
draft. He became a shrewd but generous reviewer, and a stickler for 
deadlines, which made him an editor's dream...

He was forever bursting out of his clothes, mostly denims, with two or 
three buttons on his shirt undone. Rings and earrings came and went, with 
no discernible relationship to his moods, so far as I could tell. He was, 
in fact, also a very private person. Although he had great sympathy with 
the underdog, he kept his own political beliefs hidden...

Roy's preferred transport was the bicycle he was found beside en route to 
his allotment. He was at the height of his powers, relaxed and happy with 
his partner, Natsu Hattori. The Greeks would have called it a good death, 
but it came much too soon.

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