Commander John Morton Lee OBE RN (retd.) died peacefully on February 26 after a brief illness, aged 88.
He had a long career in the Royal Navy before turning his passion for watercolours into a business – J Morton Lee Fine Watercolours – and will be remembered for his tireless energy in exhibiting at antiques fairs in the UK and abroad, with his wife Paddy, right up to the age of 82.