Patrick Gordon-Duff was born in January 1930 and grew up in
Moray, Scotland. After the
Chernobyl disaster, he wrote to
Mikhail Gorbachev to complain about the radioactive dust that had collected on the Cumbrian Fells. His letter was initially refused by the
Russian Embassy as they did not believe his name was real on account of its length. Eventually the embassy did accept his letter and he became an active leader of the
British-Soviet Friendship Society. Gordon-Duff-Pennington died on 9 January 2021 at the age of 90. He was survived by four daughters, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. His wife had predeceased him in 2011. ==Selected publications==