My older brother Richard Saumarez Smith, who has died aged 77, taught civilisation studies and anthropology at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon for many years, having previously been a maths teacher at a London school.
Richard was born in Darjeeling, India, to William Saumarez Smith, who worked for the Indian civil service, and his wife, Betty (nee Raven). Betty retreated from India at the end of the second world war, taking her two eldest children, John and Richard, with her to Cambridge. When our father returned to Britain after partition, my sister, Helen, and I were born and we lived in the village of Redlynch in Wiltshire.
