Article: Obituary: Robert Bayne-Powell

Robert Lane Bayne-Powell, lawyer, art historian: born London 10 October 1910; called to the Bar, Middle Temple 1935; served Intelligence Corps 1939- 45; Registrar, Family Division, High Court of Justice 1964-76, Senior Registrar 1976-82; Honorary Keeper of the Miniatures, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1980-94; CB 1981; married 1938 Nancy Philips (died 1979; one son, two daughters); died Borough Green, Kent 30 January 1994.

PEOPLE seldom achieve eminence by conforming. Robert Bayne-Powell might have looked like the archetypal Englishman of his generation, even as an octogenarian at home in the country still wearing what appeared to be his own father's hand-me-downs. But he was set apart from ...

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