Since most travellers buy the policy to benefit from the discount on the holiday there is a strong likelihood that they are not getting
Since most travellers buy the policy to benefit from the discount on the holiday, there is a strong likelihood that they are not getting proper advice.The second area of concern relates to the policy document. Investors receive the growth in the index (but not dividends) on 20 per cent of their investment.Legal & General’s guaranteed PEP, still open for investment, guarantees capital after five years and gives investors the full growth and income potential of the stock market. The leisure tiddler has yet to find the acquisition it is seeking but Trevor Hemmings, a director of Scottish & Newcastle, has acquired a block of convertible preference shares which could give his Northern Trust a 29.6 per cent interest. Rural activities in Somerset were of abiding interest to him. He was President of the Somerset Trust for Nature Conservation and of the Royal Bath and West Show.Other interests included being a director of Lloyds Bank and of the Bristol Waterworks Company, and governor of the National Fruit and Cider Institute at Long Ashton; he was also one of the Bristol Merchant Venturers. He was on the General Advisory Council of the BBC, and on the Council of Bristol University, who gave him an honorary LLD in 1976.In 1930 he married Mary, daughter of Lt-Col A.M Grenfell DSO.
She supported him through a long and happy marriage, sharing all his interests and chronicling the history of his distinguished family through extensive research into early documents and the Walpole con- nection (the Waldegraves had inherited Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole’s Gothic house in Twickenham). In spite of her frail health, she was unfailingly hospitable and loyal to their family and many friends.They had five daughters and two sons. One daughter, Lady Susan Hussey, has been a Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen for 35 years Their elder son, Viscount Chewton, succeeds to the earldom. Their younger son, William Waldegrave, continues the family tradition with distinction in politics and in Parliament.Countless people will treasure the memory of Geoffrey Waldegrave. His Christian example, his charming personality, and his warm humour enchanted us all.Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, landowner and public servant: born 21 November 1905; styled Viscount Chewton 1933; succeeded 1936 as 12th Earl Waldegrave; member, Somerset County Council 1937-58; chairman, Agricultural Executive Committee for Somerset 1948-51; member, Prince’s Council of the Duchy of Cornwall 1951-58, 1965-76; Liaison Officer to Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire 1952-57; Joint Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1958-62; Chairman, Forestry Commission 1963-65; Lord Warden of the Stannaries 1965-76; Chairman, Advisory Committee on Meat Research 1969- 73; KG 1971; GCVO 1976; married 1930 Mary Grenfell (two sons, five daughters); died 23 May 1995..
Lawrence Josset was in a sense a magnificent anachronism. Like his great 18th- and 19th-century predecessors, Valentine Green and Samuel Cousins for instance, he made his living as a reproductive mezzotint engraver. He, like his artistic forebears, used this most demanding of techniques to reproduce original paintings with astounding faithfulness; but, while the engravers of earlier times had no alternative, Josset furthered the great tradition of reproductive engraving in an age when the camera had all but eclipsed the craft. A mezzotint engraver proceeds by patiently and systematically texturing the surface of a copper plate with a serrated device (Josset once told me it took him two weeks to prepare a plate of moderate size) and then scraping and polishing the textured surface to various degrees of smoothness in order to achieve the image. The plate is then inked by hand and printed in a rolling-press.
Perhaps Josset’s most celebrated work is the mezzotint reproduction of Pietro Annigoni’s portrait of the Queen, published by the Times Publishing Company in 1957 and hand-printed in colour by the old-established firm Thomas Ross & Son. It is estimated that the plate was the result of six months’ labour and that the arduous process of inking and printing in colour meant that only two impressions could be made in a day.
Josset studied at Bromley School of Art and subsequently in the School of Engraving at the Royal College of Art, where he was taught by Robert Austin and Malcolm Osborne. He also worked for a year at Waterlow’s, the banknote engravers. After a brief spell of teaching, he embarked on what was to be a freelance career spanning more than 60 years.Josset’s plates were commissioned by various prominent print-publishers, among them. Fores of Piccadilly and the Bristol-based Frost & Reed, but he found at Thomas Ross & Son, in the person of Alfred Pomeroy (who ran the firm until shortly before his death in 1962), someone he described as his “best connection”. Pomeroy’s sharp appreciation of Josset’s craftsmanship was matched by his realisation that the engraver was the most unworldly of men; when asked about his fee for making a plate he is reported to have replied: “Oh, pay me what you think is fair.” He told me ruefully a few months ago that his had been a hard life – many of his clients, he said, simply “forgot to pay”. Alfred Pomeroy seems to have done much to protect him by negotiating contracts on his behalf.It is well known that reproductive engravers were loftily denied full membership of the Royal Academy for almost a century after its foundation in 1768 on the grounds that their work was merely imitative.
