The best obituary of JMS I have seen yet is in the Guardian (22 April), here.
All the obits mention JMS’s liking for discussions to be – er – lubricated. I can confirm this from personal experience. I met JMS once when he was in his early seventies, after he had given a paper at a seminar on the work of Francis Galton. We continued our conversation in a local pub, and after an hour or so – and several pints – he was in much better condition than I was!
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