Eleanor Swenson Quandt: 1921-2002

of Antiquaries of London, a Liveryman of the Stationers' Company, a sometime member of the Architectural Advisory Panel of Westminster Abbey, and a former chairman of the United Kingdom Group of the International Institute for Conservation. He was, however, most proud of his Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry and his membership of the British Standards working parties on the storage and exhibition of archival documents (BS 5454) and on the binding and treatment of books (BS 4971). Baynes-Cope was an old fashioned chemist who, in many ways, was born half a century too late: when instrumental methods of analysis began to replace the classical micro-methods in the 1960s he soon began to be out of his depth. When the British Library was born out of the British Museum in 1973, the decision was made not to have a laboratory with a paper chemist on the staff but rather to rely on contracting out scientific research. For 10 years Baynes-Cope applied his knowledge to other organic artifacts in the British Museum but in January 1984 he accepted early retirement, sold the parental home in London, and went to live in a cottage at Stanton, near Bury St Edmunds, which he had purchased some years earlier. Here he honed his expertise as a maker of jams and pickles, especially pickled walnuts collected from his own tree. From Stanton he made regular trips to London and Copenhagen and kept in touch with a legion of correspondents to whom he was a firm, if sometimes exacting, friend and for whom he was a never-ending source of advice. BC, as he was known, will be remembered as a kind man, but rather an eccentric one he once attended a conservation conference in Hungary in the height of summer wearing a bowler hat and carrying a rolled umbrella. He never married but tended his mother, who exercised a dominant influence over him, through a long widowhood. He was good company and enjoyed cooking for himself and for friends; he had a wicked sense of humour but was abletolaugh at himself-in retirement he was granted a coat of arms, one of the devices on which was a sloth. He will