http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: RJ Obituary en Mon, 18 May 2026 07:06:50 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16767#post-228058 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 00:15:27 +0000 SRD 228058@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very sad. I knew him very slightly- from here. Like others, we would chat in the meadows occasionally. Thanks for posting. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16767#post-228056 Mon, 22 Aug 2016 23:50:38 +0000 LaidBack 228056@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very sad to hear. I met him a few times but didn't know about his RSPB role. His knowledge on raptors and research into gaelic place names with eagle connections shows how lateral a thinker he was. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16767#post-228040 Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:32:17 +0000 Morningsider 228040@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Terribly sad news. I met RJ both through CCE and work - a true gent, scholar and all round good guy. We often passed each other in the Meadows.</p> <p>Thoughts are with his family and friends. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16767#post-228039 Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:31:52 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 228039@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't think I've got an active account there anymore Arellcat, so if you were able to do it that would be good. </p> <p>RJ rode with Mel and I through a torrential downpour at a distant past Pedal for Scotland. Couldn't have asked for more jovial company. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16767#post-228037 Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:48:36 +0000 Arellcat 228037@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh no! That's terribly sad news.</p> <p>RJ and I had been occasional friends for a long time. We took part in the C+ Great Forum Ride, and would sometimes bump into each other in the Meadows. His obituary is spot on.</p> <p>(WC, will you be cross-posting to yACF?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16767#post-228035 Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:28:59 +0000 chdot 228035@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Don't think I ever met.</p> <p>Member for over six years.</p> <p>This was one of his first posts -</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=512#post-3888" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=512#post-3888</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16767#post-228034 Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:07:55 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 228034@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think quite a lot of you on here will have met RJ, Richard, who posted on here from time to time, and is genuinely one of the nicest men I ever met. A true gent, and someone I could talk to about the Isles and birds knowing he would never glaze over.</p> <p>His obituary puts it best, "Softly spoken and understated, jovial, perceptive, tactically clever, and determinedly non-institutional, Richard Evans was admired and loved by colleagues and friends - as much for his humanity as for his deep intelligence."</p> <p>He suffered a heart attack riding to work on 26th July, and died in hospital 2 weeks later. We'd meant to meet up quite a few times for a coffee at Edinburgh Park, and now feel awful that we never managed it.</p> <p>Thoughts are with his wife and son.</p> <p><a href="http://m.heraldscotland.com/opinion/14694611.Obituary___Richard_Evans__naturalist_and_expert_on_eagles/">Herald Obituary</a> </p>