Combe lost a stupid game in the Olympiad which is often quoted but this WAS a gentle master and his memory deserves better, a quietly reserved man and name another Scot – go on – who won the British Championship. Levy, Pritchett, McKay, Condie. No, we have to shout Rowson from decades later. The war may have left him in a bad state that medicines could not reach or even spot. He died young.