• Man of harmony in music and in landscape

  Kieran Clarke, who has died aged 52, was Ireland's leading piano technician and the restorer of Ard na Mona house and gardens on Lough Eske, Co Donegal, now acknowledged as one of the most beautiful rhododendron forests in these islands. p
  

• Fiat chief forever in brother's shadow

  Born into a family whose glamour and success earned them the title of Italy's uncrowned royals, Fiat chairman Umberto Agnelli was a prince in waiting, standing in the shadow of his more charismatic elder brother, Gianni. p
  

• Butler Society founder who fought to defend rights of Irish peers in Lords

  Patrick Butler, 28th Lord Dunboyne, who died last week in London aged 87, had an encyclopaedic knowledge of the genealogy of the Butlers, not only that of his own branch of this historic Irish family, but of all the numerous families of the name Butler whether they were obscure or eminent. p
  

• Discoverer of birds as 'helpers at the nest'

  In 1941 he bought a 178-acre swathe of tropical rain forest in Costa Rica that he named Finca Los Cusingos for the fiery-billed aracaris nesting all around. For the next 63 years he lived in a house he built himself, with no car and no telephone or electricity, simply watching the neotropical birds from dawn to dusk. p
  

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