Thanks Simon.
He went out with all faculties intact. COPD got him in the end.
It is due to him that I have this renaissance interest because as a child he took me to visit Albrecht Durer's house in Nuremburg.
Although he was an engineer ,he was also an amateur artist with a keen sense of colour and love of renaissance and medieval art. ( John Richard Holcroft Taylor 12/11/1930 - 1/12/2017).