Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

And by all accounts a very kind and decent man.

If it was up to the Holmesians, Mr Hardwicke, every flag in the country would be flying at half-mast.

link to obit. (Apologies for the Torygraph, but it was that or the article from the Stage which is dominated by an animated Maltesers advert. Not quite the thing).