My father, Richard Kell, who has died aged 95, was a poet, composer, teacher and former Guardian reviewer – a lover of language, a wordsmith and self-described “inveterate scribbler”.
Born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland, to Irene (nee Musgrave), a member of a merchant and hotelier family, and George Kell, a Methodist minister and missionary, Richard spent his early childhood years in India, before attending Methodist College in Belfast as a boarder.
