and Ph.D. degrees from Durham in 1959 and 1962 respectively. He was greatly involved in research on Variscan fold belt of Wales and SW England. Always present at TSG meetings, his researches on brittle deformation will remain a source of inspiration for research scientists in this field. I got in touch with him as many as 25 years ago when he had got more or less firmly rooted at Bristol, one of the finest places to be living in, if you are in England. He was rather shy in giving me a large listing of a ten thousand lines of program to plot symbols on structural maps and seemed too apologetic that graphically it could not really do the very best that any structural geologist may want to have. Prof Hancock on my return to India sent me the first issue of the Journal of Structural Geology and it is greatly satisfying to see that the format of the journal has remained unchanged even after a score of years than what Paul had wanted it to be like.  We called him the COMTEC more or less on the lines of Aztec just for fun, since he was so closely associated with that organization. A Bristol man, fond of the Bristol Cream sherry, unfortunately died too young in Dec 1998, barely over three scores in age, but as young at heart as a boy of 12, a real Bristolian if I may be allowed to use such a term. “Continental Deformation”, the great work that he did will live for all time to come.