I have just Googled Gil and am very sad to see that he has passed away. I remember him very well in Lusaka, Zambia, in the 1960s, and at UCRN, Salisbury (now Harari). I first met him in Lusaka whilst we were still at school - he was Head Boy at Peterhouse, I think ( he once had the awful task of clearing up after a fellow pupil had died at school) - I was at Kingswood College, Grahamstown, RSA. We had great fun during the holidays driving through the bush in a huge heavy American car. He had a pair of hawks, one a goshawk, and another one called Audax, I recall, and his family a lovely but brainless red setter dog called Russet. Gil it was who introduced me to "The Hobbit" and "The Sword In The Stone" - the latter he said was a primer for his first love of falconry. We continued our friendship at UCRN where, together with another friend, Rich Hammond, we sang our way in three part harmony through our leisure hours. His parents were both academics, a path that Gil could well have followed, but I'm afraid that I lost touch with him after a few years when he went to Cambridge and then MIT, I gather. I occasionally came across members of his family in Taunton, Somerset, after I returned to the UK in 1965 following 20 years in Africa. I have many fond memories of Gil, and wish him God Speed, and my best wishes to any family he leaves behind. He was a great lad !!!!! Peter D Leech