Murder victim Allan Chappelow was an 86-year-old Cambridge-educated millionaire recluse who made his infrequent trips to the shops by motorbike, wearing a leather helmet and an old RAF mac tied with string. In 1950 he took the last photos of Bernard Shaw, about whom he later wrote Shaw the Chucker-Out: a Biographical Exposition and Critique and Shaw the Villager and Human Being. The despair of Camden Council’s planning department, he mended his roof of his mansion with Selotape and plastic bags. He sounds a treasure; my sympathy to those who mourned him. More here and here.
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