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Boy was a man of many parts some would say mercurial. He was Managing Director of his family publishing company ‘Ward Lock’ long established publishers with his father, uncles and cousins on the board. The company published widely from Mrs Beeton to Canon Doyle and to the novels of Alan Grieve’s mother-in-law, Patricia Dunn. ‘Ward Lock’ was sold in 1970.
Boy had worked in New York and Japan, where he spent the best part of a month for ten years. After leaving Ward Locke he had set up his own company. His working life included photography and publishing stickers of footballers which was very profitable! With his own company he also imported basmati rice (to please his Indian accountant) and published English educational books in Russian where his second son worked. He obtained a pilot’s licence flying a Tiger Moth with Alan Grieve as his passenger. He was a knowledgeable gardener with a propensity to propagate chestnut and walnut trees. He built a family house close to the Grieve’s house in the Spanish hills above Denia in Alicante.
He was married to Liz Shipton and with their three sons lived in a series of north west London houses and then in the country in a series of old rectories where his affinity with animals especially with dogs flourished.
Tony had a fine enquiring mind, widely read, keen to learn from books, the Economist and the New Scientist and always open to embrace life as it came to him. A full life with many friends enjoyed in so many fields and countries.
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