My stepdad, Matthew Kinross, who has died aged 76, was an artist, architect and musician who always found beauty in his surroundings.
Born in Shepperton, Surrey, to Rupert Kinross, a radio engineer who contributed to the invention of radar during the second world war, and Patience (nee English), who studied art in Vienna, Matt was the third of four siblings and lived in a house that backed onto the Thames. At the age of six he went to the King’s school, Canterbury, as a boarder. It was a lonely experience that made him appreciate the importance of keeping loved ones close in later life.
