I feel deeply privileged to have known Bill first as a fellow planner then as a fellow ‘Parkie’ and PD Warrior. As an architect/planner Bill was an inspiration, being both a visionary and a pragmatist. As a Parkie he was the great encourager, the go to person for so many when they were diagnosed. He lived out the mantra ‘I may have Parkinson’s but Parkinson’s hasn’t got me’. It was through Bill’s encouragement that I became the N.Ireland trustee for PUK. Parkinson’s has been described as ‘being trapped in a body over which you are gradually losing control’. Whilst saddened in recent years by the deterioration in his physical condition, the mischievous sparkle in his eye assured us that he was still the same fun loving, self effacing, generous, inspiring person that we knew and loved. He will be sadly missed but fondly remembered.