Abstract
Guy Stewart Callendar was a loving husband and devoted father of two. By all accounts, he enjoyed a fulfilling family life, providing his dependents with a peaceful and secure home during the worldwide depression of the 1930s, the ordeal of World War II, and Britain’s post-1945 economic decline. He was an accomplished tennis player, avid bicyclist, and creative gardener. He was home often, as attested by his remarkable unbroken series of weather observations, beginning in November 1942 and extending through September 1964. This was possible because his work for the government at Langhurst was near his home, within bicycling distance in good weather. After his trips to Germany in 1930 and America in 1934 to attend the International Steam Table Conferences (see Chapter 3), he took no more international trips. On evenings and weekends, and just about full time after his retirement in 1958, he pursued his weather and climate studies—his beloved “figs.”—that is, in addition to being a good family man and avid sportsman.
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