ACR and FAH wedding, Tuesday 22 August 1933. Photo taken on the Vicarage Lawn at St Stephen's Cinderford, Gloucestershire. L to R - Myrtle Hicks, Mrs Humphries, Leslie Giles, his mother, Mrs Middlecote, Mr Hillman, ?, Mrs Hillman, Dr Arthur John HUBBARD (father of bride,) Mrs Embling, The Rev F.W.P. Hicks, Arthur Cecil ROPER (groom), Frances Ann HUBBARD (bride,) Charlotte Marian Hubbard (née VIZARD, mother of bride,) George Edward HUBBARD (brother of bride) and John Waddington HUBBARD (brother of bride.)

ACR and FAH wedding, Tuesday 22 August 1933L to R - John Waddington HUBBARD (elder brother of bride,) Charlotte Marian Hubbard (née VIZARD, mother of bride,) Arthur John HUBBARD (father of bride,) Arthur Cecil ROPER (groom,) Frances Ann HUBBARD (bride,) George Edward Hubbard (second elder brother of bride) 
 
It is striking how similar Arthur John Hubbard looks to Sir Arthur Evans, his cousin! 

ACR and FAR at my parent's wedding. Edmondsham, Dorset 5 October 1946. L to R - Jack and Margaret Hubbard; George and Mollie Hubbard; Doc and Frances Roper (ACR and FAR)

ACR and FAR Silver Wedding photograph 22nd August 1958 Worthing

Archaeologist Couchant - Muntham Court, Findon, Sussex. August 1956

      
ACR with Mr Barton, Curator of Worthing Museum in late 1950's.

ACR (aged 72) at archaeological camp Glynde, Sussex. 20th August 1962

         ACR June 1967 (aged 77)
This is very much how I remember him. Behind that slightly gruff exterior was a man of immense wisdom, love and humour.

Uncle Doc was a famous excavator, so much so that a saying went round, that if you saw a hole in the South Downs with a non-stop jet of rubble flying out of it, you would be sure to find Roper at the bottom!! (from a letter to me from FAR, Feb 1976)

     FAR and ACR  April 1968 outside 44 South Farm Road, Worthing. Photo by JFH aged 19.

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