My father, Stephen Lawrence, who has died aged 90, was an important figure in the musical life of Cumbria. He was a peripatetic cello teacher, a member of the Cumbria Quartet, ran the Cumbria Youth Orchestra and co-founded the Cumbria Philharmonia. He also played horn in the Westmorland Orchestra.
He was the grand-nephew of William Haslam Mills, the chief reporter of the Manchester Guardian in the early 1900s; Stephen could be found reading the print edition of the Guardian every day until he died.
