◼ Mollie Evans died on July 1 aged 94. She was an influential antiques dealer trading from 82 and 84 Hill Rise, Richmond, for many years.
After moving from Cumbria to London during the war, where she took up a civil service position, she started her business in Hill Rise at the end of the 1960s and ceased trading in 1995.
Mollie dealt principally in English and French country and provincial furniture and decorative items.