5 DECEMBER 1947, Page 5

* * * * There are some rare people in

the world who, by their integrity, public spirit, humanity and unassuming dignity, leave everyone who meets them the better for the contact. They are all too few, and the death of Sir Robert Greig last week leaves them fewer still. Greig was perhaps better known in Scotland, where he lived—he was for many years Secretary of the Scottish Board of Agriculture—than in England, but after his retirement from his official position he became a director of the L.M.S. and a member of the University Grants Committee. But the essential thing about Greig was not what he did, though he did much that was of public value, but what he was. And that, unfortunately, can be only very inadequately conveyed to those

who did not know him by those who did. 'ANUS.