Tribute to 'a genius in his speciality'
From: Nancy Buckle. Town Crier of Knaresborough.
I HAVE been privileged to have known Dr Arnold Kellett and his wife, Pat for most of my adult life.
Drawn together by our insatiable desire to preserve and protect the 2,000 year history of Knaresborough, Arnold, by his indisputable genius and scholarship, myself by token of my six century lineage with its extraordinary familial achievements, we have always striven to preserve that which we both revered and loved – the heritage.
So typical of the gentleman Arnold was is proven by the time he gave over the past 50 years, in order that he met an abundance of so many ‘dyed in the linen’ Knaresborians gleaning invaluable knowledge of their own lives, and times, and by association also the lives and times of their forebears. But for Arnold, these invaulable accounts would have been lost to the heritage.
Although not a Knaresborian by birth, he ranks as one of the town’s greatest Knaresborians, and history will record him as such.
Arnold Kellett – genius in his specialty, scholar and notably always a gentleman – my friend who has now taken his place in the history of the town he loved, united those he has immortalised.
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Thursday 24 May 2012
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