Dr ‘Ben’ Monro died suddenly on 30 May, aged 68 years. He had been a Lord Chancellor's Medical Visitor since 1973. Previously his career had been in psychiatric hospitals and he became a distinguished Medical Superintendent of Long Grove Hospital, Epsom. He was early to introduce there ‘Industrial Therapy’ and elsewhere to develop a ‘Day Hospital’. Again, when the first Adolescent Unit was transferred from St. Ebba's Hospital to Long Grove he at once took an active personal part in the practice of adolescent psychiatry. His few writings reflected his earlier interest in statistical analysis.