24-06 2022 11:20
wrote:
Condolences to the girls and grandchildren on the loss of such a lovely man. I first met him when, as Heather Wyatt, I arrived in Tehran to work on an English language newspaper in 1968. Nobby was the senior news editor and I was a feature writer. This was after Exeter University and before the FT, if I remember correctly. Like many Tehran drivers, he owned a fairly beat-up Mercedes -Benz which he would generously fill up with passengers to tour the country on weekends ( Friday and Saturday in Iran). Our favourite was to scale the Elbourz Mountains to reach the Caspian Sea, where in pre-revolutionary times we could swim unhindered in bikinis. An equal favourite was to drive south to spectacular Isfahan. We enjoyed dinner out at an array of Tehran restaurants once we had put the paper to bed - Nobby sometimes staying in the office to tend to a late-breaking story. We wrestled with censorship, despite our best efforts to speak the truth without unduly upsetting those in charge.
Nobby had such a deep interest in and knowledge of foreign news- both the Tehran Journal and the FT nourished that - even tho the TJ was tiny in comparison.
In emails, he had such a positive. approach to his illness. Although I saw him only infrequently, I shall certainly miss him.
24-06 2022 11:20
wrote:
Condolences to the girls and grandchildren on the loss of such a lovely man. I first met him when, as Heather Wyatt, I arrived in Tehran to work on an English language newspaper in 1968. Nobby was the senior news editor and I was a feature writer. This was after Exeter University and before the FT, if I remember correctly. Like many Tehran drivers, he owned a fairly beat-up Mercedes -Benz which he would generously fill up with passengers to tour the country on weekends ( Friday and Saturday in Iran). Our favourite was to scale the Elbourz Mountains to reach the Caspian Sea, where in pre-revolutionary times we could swim unhindered in bikinis. An equal favourite was to drive south to spectacular Isfahan. We enjoyed dinner out at an array of Tehran restaurants once we had put the paper to bed - Nobby sometimes staying in the office to tend to a late-breaking story. We wrestled with censorship, despite our best efforts to speak the truth without unduly upsetting those in charge.
Nobby had such a deep interest in and knowledge of foreign news- both the Tehran Journal and the FT nourished that - even tho the TJ was tiny in comparison.
In emails, he had such a positive. approach to his illness. Although I saw him only infrequently, I shall certainly miss him.
