Hedges Worthington-Eyre
From Moriston Matters, Issue 16, December 1979
Hedges Worthington-Eyre, of Tailor's Croft, Invermoriston, died suddenly on 22nd October, in hospital in London, following a heart attack, aged 80. Born the youngest of 7 children in Dun Laoghaire, Republic of Ireland, he went to Trinity College, Dublin, and was well-known for his love of athletics. He ran in the Olympic Games in Antwerp in the 1920's and was in the College Hockey Team. He was then in Burma, working with elephants in the teak forests, but returned to England at the outbreak of the war to join the Royal Artillery. After the war he was stationed with the RASC, British Army of the Rhine in Germany, where he remained until retiring to Tailor's Croft. After the death of his wife Betty (neé Buttar of Coupar Angus, Perthshire), he either lived with his son, Roland, Chartered Accountant on the Isle of Islay, or with his daughter, Wendy, in London, where he was at the time of his sudden death, being quite fit and athletic right until the end, in spite of a touch of arthritis. He is sadly missed by Wendy, Roland and Fernando, who will continue to go to the Tailor's Croft as often as possible, to look after the place, see their friends and keep memories alive. Mr Eyre will be missed in the village too where his erect figure as he walked down to the shop for his messages and up the hill again was a familiar sight for a number of years. His deafness was a handicap, cutting him off in a measure from other people, but we believe that he derived much quiet enjoyment from his stay in the community.