In 1979 he was promoted Vice-Admiral and Chief of Naval Support, and appointed Fourth Sea Lord on a strong Board under Sir Henry Leach, with John Fieldhouse as Controller. And in 1980 he was appointed KCB and promoted Admiral on appointment in 1982 as Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies (formerly the IDC). In 1970, a year at the Imperial Defence College (IDC) followed and he went on to be Assistant to the Director-General, Ships before returning to Thunderer, this time in command (1973-75).It was now that his prowess benefited from the 1956 reforms. Promoted Rear-Admiral in 1976, he became Port Admiral, Rosyth, and then Assistant Chief of Fleet Support. He did the 1967 Senior Officers' War Course at Greenwich, still safe in naval hands, and was then the Controller's representative in Scotland and Northern Ireland. His last job as a Commander was a classic promotion appointment - on the staff of the Director of Officers' Appointments in the MOD.Sure enough, promotion to Captain came in 1966, and his four appointments in that rank all pointed onwards and upwards.
Shore service at Simonstown (1962-64) as Chief Staff Officer (Technical) to Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic was followed by a memorably agreeable flag-showing cruise around South America as Marine Engineer Officer in the cruiser Tiger, his last sea time. He did his sea time as a midshipman, and then as a junior engine-room watch-keeper (1946-48) in the old Illustrious, by then the Home Fleet trials and training carrier. Two years back at Manadon (Thunderer) on the staff and two more as Engineer Officer of Alert, the yacht turned despatch vessel of the Commander-in-Chief Far East during the Korean War, prefaced a three-year stint in the Dockyard at Gibraltar.He was there when AFO 1/56 was published, went back to sea as Engineer in the Battle Class destroyer Corunna and in 1958 was promoted Commander and appointed to Lochinvar, the mine-sweeping base on the Forth. His career prospered because, like Terry Lewin, he liked his people in the old naval sense, and they returned his confidence; he was one of those Williams who are inevitably Bill, knighted or not. He was a classic example of the naval officer who was almost incidentally an engineer.Pillar was born in 1924 and joined the Navy as a Cadet (E) in 1942. He qualified at the Naval Engineering Colleges at Keyham, Devonport, and Manadon, Plymouth, winning the King's Sword when he passed out. The emphasis shifted from the branch to the service as a whole.
Sir Peter White, the Chief Naval Supply and Secretariat Officer, was the first specialist to reach the Admiralty Board Pillar was not far behind him. As one of the planners behind AFO 1/56 (the first Admiralty Fleet Order of 1956), Lewin was an architect of the new officer structure which perforce divided them all into "wet" and "dry" lists: would the executive officers exercise command at sea again or, however distinguished or promising, would the rest of their service be ashore? The seaman branch saw several deserving careers curtailed. The old specialist branches - Supply, Engineering, Electrical, for example - saw unexpected career prospects. Now all shore appointments were open to the right men. NAVAL CAREERS class themselves largely according to whether the individual joined the Navy before, during or after the Second World War. Lord Lewin fell - just - into the first group, William Pillar firmly into the second; the former had a great influence on the career of the latter. In 1994 Oswaldo Guayasamn was awarded a prize by Unesco in recognition of his work in defence of peace and human rights.His eyesight began to fail in recent years, and he was in Baltimore for treatment when he suffered a heart attack and died.Oswaldo Aparicio Guayasamn Calero, artist: born Quito 6 July 1919; married 1939 Maruja Monteverdi (two sons, two daughters), 1957 Luce Deperon (three daughters), third Helene Faure; died Baltimore, Maryland 10 March 1999.. Guayasamn told an interviewer shortly before his death that he bore Picasso a grudge for years after that, but had come to see that he was right not to allow importunate visitors to disturb his work.In 1976 he set up the Guayasamn Foundation in Quito and donated to it his valuable collection of pre-Columbian and colonial art, as well as more than 250 of his own works.
He used the prize money to travel to France, in the hope of seeing Picasso in Cannes But Picasso refused to see him. With help from his mother, Oswaldo was able to get into the School of Fine Arts in Quito in 1932, finally graduating in painting and sculpture in 1941, and held his first individual exhibition in Quito the following year.He first achieved international recognition in 1956 when he won the first prize in a competition for more than 30,000 artists from all over Latin America, Spain and Portugal. The last, the Age of Tenderness, is more hopeful, depicting co-operation between peoples to build a better world.Guayasamn was born in the poor La Tola district of Quito, the oldest of 10 children of an Indian father and mestiza mother who died young. His father, a carpenter who had to take up driving taxis and trucks to make ends meet, always opposed his son's determination to become a painter. The first, which he entitled Huacaynan (the Way of Sorrows in Quechua, the language of Ecuador's highland Indians), was begun in 1948, after Guayasamn had spent more than a year travelling all over Latin America.
His style was heavily influenced by the Mexican muralists, particularly Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, whom he had met in Mexico a few years earlier.The second sequence, the Age of Wrath, which began in 1963, consists of 250 pictures dealing with the universal themes of war and inhumanity. One of the most striking is in the debating chamber of the Ecuadorean congress building in Quito. It caused a diplomatic incident when it was unveiled in 1988: the US representative took exception to a grinning skull wearing a Nazi helmet emblazoned with the letters "CIA" and walked out.He divided up his output into three sequences or periods. But his vast, panoramic murals will probably be his best-remembered works. Guayasamn regarded the United States as the main enemy of Latin America - though, ironically, Nelson Rockefeller was one of his earliest admirers and patrons, inviting him to visit the US in 1943, when he was 24.Guayasamn also painted hundreds of portraits, including Fidel Castro (three times), King Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Caroline of Monaco. The story is not a happy one: the agonised expressions and contorted limbs of his subjects reflect the dispossession and destruction of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, first by the Spanish conquerors and later by "American imperialism".