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Guy Stewart Callendar was a loving husband and devoted father of two. By all accounts, he enjoyed a fulfilling family life, providing his dependents with a peaceful and secure home during the worldwide depression of the 1930s, the ordeal of World War II, and Britain’s post-1945 economic decline. He was an accomplished tennis player, avid bicyclist, and creative gardener. He was home often, as attested by his remarkable unbroken series of weather observations, beginning in November 1942 and extending through September 1964. This was possible because his work for the government at Langhurst was near his home, within bicycling distance in good weather. After his trips to Germany in 1930 and America in 1934 to attend the International Steam Table Conferences (see Chapter 3), he took no more international trips. On evenings and weekends, and just about full time after his retirement in 1958, he pursued his weather and climate studies—his beloved “figs.”—that is, in addition to being a good family man and avid sportsman.
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See the following “Percuil” weather journals: CP 2,1942; CP 3,1943-ARTHUR, 1944–1945,1948; CP 4,1957-10; CP 6,1960-W; CP 7,1963-W.
Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage, Guy Stewart Callendar and Phyllis Burdon Pentreath, 30 August 1930, General Register Office, England. Document ordered through Family Records Centre, London.
Newspaper Press Directory (London: Benn Booth, 1930).
Middlesex County Times (30 August 1930), p. 3, column b.
Personal communication with Bridget, 30 May 2005.
Letters from G. S. Callendar to A. C. Egerton, 20 August and 27 August 1934, Egerton Papers, B/Egerton/14/4, Imperial College London, Library Archives and Special Collections.
Letter from G. S. Callendar to A. C. Egerton, 26 November 1930, Egerton Papers, B/Egerton/16/2, Imperial College.
8. Their formal names were Anne Pentreath and Phyllis Bridget (who later changed her legal name to Bridget Phyllis).
Guy to Phyllis, September 1934, Five letters from his trip to America, CP 8, Folder 1 and Appendix B of this book.
”Battle of Britain Campaign Diary, 15 September 1940” http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/september15.html (10 March 2006).
Issues of class difference during the attacks are discussed in “The Blitz: Sorting the Myth from the Reality,” http://www.bbc.co.Uk/history/war/wwtwo/blitz_01.shtml (10 March 2006).
Frank Mee, “My Father the Firewatcher,” http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A1250506 (10 March 2006).
Alan Jeffreys, “The War Through the Window of a Schoolboy,” http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A1365743 (10 March 2006).
Langhurst House, Langhurstwood Road, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 4WX.
Newspaper Press Directory (London: Benn Booth, 1964).
The accident occurred during a test of a petrol burner.
Mike Brown, “Christmas Under Fire,” http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/ christmas_underfire_01.shtml (10 March 2006).
CP 2, Notebook 1942, 52–53.
”Horsham: General history of the town,” A History of the County of Sussex: Volume VI Part 2: Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) including Horsham (1986), 131–156; http://www.british.history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18350 (7 July 2005).
Scottish novelist and dramatist Sir James Matthew (J. M.) Barrie (1860–1937) author of Peter Pan, and Nobel Laureate George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950).
Bridget currently owns a Dachshund named “Toffee.”
See photographs of conifers dated 1956,1953, and 1961 in CP 8, Folder 3.
G. S. Callendar to Anne, 11 February 1962, CP 8, Folder 1.
”Yes perhaps we may meet at a better time of year. I occasionally cycle Guildford way in the summer, but the weather has to be very good for it!” (Callendar to Lamb, 10 February 1962, CP 1.
Before 1971, the British monetary system involved pounds (£), shillings (s), and pence (d), with 20s per pound and 12d per shilling.
G. S. Callendar to Anne, 1963, CP 8, Folder 1.
CP 6, Notebook 1960-W, 76-77.
CP 7, Notebook 1963-W, 44-47.
Certified Copy of an Entry of Death, Guy Stewart Callendar, 3 October 1964, General Register Office, England. Document ordered through Family Records Centre, London.
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Fleming, J.R. (2007). A Family Man. In: The Callendar Effect. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-04-1_2
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