Hugh PATON

Hugh, you were a joy to work for and I always enjoyed our all-too-brief times together. God bless. Jim Aitchison (former creative director, Paton Australia, Sydney

My family knew his mother Esther Paton well and I remember meeting Hugh in the 1960s or so when Esther moved from her house into Neil McAthur's flat in Fairholm Grove, Camberwell. Neil, whom the Paton children called Colonel Mac, had been married to my aunt Dorothy [Dido, Dorrit] who swopped colonels during the last war. Hugh impressed me greatly with his knowledge of Wagner's music. We lost touch with Esther when she moved to Queensland where her brother lived. In one of my last...