Poetic Obituaries: Having bought a hunting lodge in Devon,

this proved not wholly convenient, so he [Glencairn Balfour-Paul] resigned to become a research fellow at the University of Exeter and devote himself to writing and travelling with his wife, a researcher and writer on the use of indigo dyes, in the Maghreb and in south-west and South-East Asia. He published a book of poetry, A Kind of Kindness, in 2000, and his autobiography, Bagpipes in Babylon, in 2006.

from The Times: Glencairn Balfour-Paul: British ambassador to Baghdad

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