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Improved Simians

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Sir Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978)
Sir Clough, the architect and creator of Portmeirion. died last month. Last year he and his wife, AMABEL, aged 83, author and critic, talked to HALLAM TENNYSON about the beliefs that shaped their remarkable partnership and about the many famous people they had known.
I regard Homo Sapiens not as a set of miserable sinners, nor as fallen angels but as improved simians - that is to say apes and monkeys and those enchanting creatures, bush-babies.' (AMABEL WILLIAMS-ELLIS)

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Sir Clough Williams-Ellis
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Hallam Tennyson

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