Sir Geoffrey Warren Furlonge
(1903-1984), DiplomatSitter in 4 portraits
by Walter Bird
bromide print, 22 January 1962
NPG x167707
by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 26 January 1951
NPG x99919
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 16 January 1962
NPG x171435
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 16 January 1962
NPG x171436
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Erica Preston-Smith
10 June 2020, 20:42
In 1980 Sir Geoffrey Furlonge travelled with a small group, including myself, to South America.
It was intended to follow in the footsteps of Thor Heyerdahl’s “Kon Tiki” expedition.
I was 30 years old at the time, and Sir Geoffrey in his early eighties. He was an absolute delight to be with, and insisted on calling me’Popsy’! I told him a wonderful joke about a Lion-Tamer which amused him for a long time afterwards. He said how much he wished that I could have been with him when he attended “those stuffy Embassy dinners”; I wish I could have too, but dining with him in the only hotel on Easter Island in August 1980, more than made up for it.