ABSTRACT
Richard John Chorley was born at 00.50 on 4 September 1927 and is always pleased to note that, discounting ‘summer time’, his birth date is 3.9.27. Three has always been his lucky number and it is understood that Plot 33 has been reserved for him at St Giles Cemetery, Cambridge. His birthplace was Minehead, a small town in Somerset only 20 miles west of the village of Pawlett, the home of Peter Haggett with whom later he was so happily linked. His father’s name was Joseph and his mother’s Mary, and he was their only child.
