I recently posted on some of the locals whose contributions to our transatlantic culture have been considered worthy of public recognition and reward by the great and good who promote themselves in our modern society and who wish their examples to be copied by the young.
Today I will mention someone who really is worthy of being placed before our local young students as a model for emulation, Mr Peter Cormack. In an interesting and well-deserved act of public recognition, this William Morris Scholar and Gentleman has been awarded an MBE in this year's Honours List.
He is a genuine internationally recognized expert in his field, and much loved and respected for the 30 years he worked at the very excellent William Morris Museum, becoming its curator before being rewarded by the philistines in our council with the royal order of boot.
The light he has shed on subjects such as Pugin, Connick, The Arts and Crafts Movement, specialising in stained glass, (as well as his work as an illustrator of less obviously related topics such as the British Air Forces of the First World War), have clearly left him with friends at more palatial places than are appreciated by the here-today-gone-tomorrow local non-entities who failed to give him the respect and support he was due when he was at the William Morris Museum.