eorge's death breaks a friendship of close on sixty years. It must have been about 1964/5: he was in London on his Fulbright Scholarship researching some aspect of Ruskin, and had an introduction to me from his Princeton tutor, Professor Dudley Johnson. He was the first of a small circle of Dudley's Princeton scholars I came to know and whose friendship I continue to relish. By his death George is the first to break that charmed circle.
His creation of the Victorian Web was inspired, and his legacy will live on. The last time I had the pleasure of seeing him at lunch in my home he pounced on the Doulton salt cellar - almost certainly modelled by George Tinworth - with its portrait heads of Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Salisbury, and proceeded to photograph it for the Web.
Created 1 October 2023