Robert was my internal examiner at Bath while performing my PhD between 1993-1997. He was always helpful and ultra critical of my poor grammar. I was always ultra critical of his terrible screeching "singing" that howled down the corridors. Just before my viva, which was possibly the most nervous I'd been in my life, Robert calmed me and said, "Lee, as long as you've written it, you'll be fine". I'd written it, so I was! My last memory was a post-viva beer where Robert sat in his shorts and smoked a cigar. The world is a lesser place without him.
Lee Smith
12/10/2011
