"An electric current": Simon Albury Obituary
There can’t be many funerals where poems by such radically different poets as Gerard Manley Hopkins, an English Jesuit priest, and Allen Ginsberg, the Beat Buddhist whose verse influenced Bob Dylan, are read as part of the service. But Simon Albury, the former CEO of the RTS, who has died aged 80, was one of a kind and someone who possessed eclectic tastes and passions.