Law, Richard William Evan, son of George Edward Law MC FIPA, of Ewell, Surrey, and Margaret Dorothy Evans OBE, encyclopaedist, d. of Thomas Robert Evans, grain broker, of Shrewsbury, Shropshire; b. 17 May 1926; adm. Sept. 1939 (KS); Capt. of the Sch. 1943; left July 1944; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1944, BA, MA 1951; RNVR 1944-7 (Sub-Lieut. ); a merchant banker; Seligman Bros 1951-3; Gillett Bros Discount Co. 1953-83, man. dir. 1968-83; dir. Kirkland-Whittaker Ltd. (Foreign Exchange and Currency Deposits) and chmn. Kirkland-Whittaker (Italia) 1974-8; dir. BCI Ltd. 1983-7; chmn. Euromed Investments Plc 1986-97; MBE Jun 1996, for services to UK/Italian cultural relations; music critic for Opera and other periodicals 1950-; author (as Evan Hughes), Banking 1974; m. 11 Feb 1955 Joy Patricia Spira, art historian, d. of Jean-Jacques Spira MRCS LRCP, med. practitioner; d. 20 June 2007.