Ian Anstruther

He inherited substantial property interests in South Kensington and wrote several books on specialised areas of 19th-century social and literary history.

An amateur radio ham, he was quickly transferred to the Royal Corps of Signals, and was commissioned, ending up as a captain.

After the war, he chanced to meet Sir Archibald Clerk Kerr, a family friend, on a bus in London.

He met Geraldine Horner, elder daughter of Captain Gerald Stuart Blake, and they were married on 7 March 1951.

The baronet was divorced in 1963, and he married the architect Susan Margaret Walker daughter of Colonel St John Bradling Paten on 15 November 1963.

He had bought a country estate at Barlavington, on the north of the South Downs near Petworth in West Sussex, in 1956, including 3,000 acres (12 km2) of woodland, farmland and downland.

He enjoyed cars, owning an Aston Martin DB6, a Maserati, and several Porsches, but disliked excessive speed, and was occasionally stopped by the police for driving too slowly.

He also believed (almost certainly incorrectly) that he held the British baronetcy of Anstruther (1798), but its remainder (to "heirs-male of the body legitimately begotten" of the grantee) would have made it extinct on the death of Sir Windham Carmichael-Anstruther, 11th Baronet, in 1980, as most reference books, such as Burke and Debrett, have noted.

He walked each day in the South Downs, lunching at one of five village pubs during the week, always drinking ginger beer.