William Hartley

William spent thirty-five years teaching biology at a grammar school in Yorkshire, and every pupil who passed through his classroom left knowing the Latin name of at least one oak.

After retiring he volunteered at the local botanical gardens, where he catalogued more than two thousand plants and planted an avenue of young limes that now shades the main path.

He was a devoted husband to Margaret for sixty years, a patient grandfather and an enthusiastic, if not always successful, grower of tomatoes.