Len Santorelli
Allan Maitland
Wednesday 14 December 2011
I join Len Santorelli in his sadness. Allan Maitland was the man who held my hand when I received my first posting as country manager in Portugal during the revolution in 1975. I sadly have just sent him an Xmas card and was awaiting his annual one to me. Allan always sent charity Xmas cards featuring cartoons by Giles, long dead cartoonist of the Daily Express. The money from the cards went to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and the cartoons featured lifeboats and funny crews at Xmas time. He obviously supported them because he loved sailing.
Malcolm Bain
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Allan Maitland
Tuesday 13 December 2011
I was saddened to learn of Allan’s death. I worked with him on Reuters World in the late 1980s and got to know him as a friend. He was a Reuters man of the old school, thoroughly professional, unruffled by crises, with prodigious knowledge about the company and its people. It was typical of him to make light of coming under a Viet Cong attack while covering the Vietnam war in 1969 – “one just got on with it”. But for the gentle, self-effacing man that he was, he had a wicked sense of humour when the occasion arose.
His big passion was sailing and he often crewed for his old Reuters mate Bill Humphries aboard Bill’s vintage wood-and-brass yacht Dorothea on trips across the channel and around the Mediterranean. His other obsession was the, surprisingly, vicious game of croquet and he was an accomplished player at tournaments in the Hurlingham Club. He remained in good spirits during his long illness and even in his final time in hospital was cracking jokes and asking for news about the latest shake-up at Thomson Reuters. Our deep sympathy goes out to Mignonne and all his family.
Len Santorelli
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His big passion was sailing and he often crewed for his old Reuters mate Bill Humphries aboard Bill’s vintage wood-and-brass yacht Dorothea on trips across the channel and around the Mediterranean. His other obsession was the, surprisingly, vicious game of croquet and he was an accomplished player at tournaments in the Hurlingham Club. He remained in good spirits during his long illness and even in his final time in hospital was cracking jokes and asking for news about the latest shake-up at Thomson Reuters. Our deep sympathy goes out to Mignonne and all his family.
Len Santorelli
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