Martin Brett Editor, 1991–2002

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Appreciations are less painful to write than obituaries, yet in the case of a departing co-Editor, there is still a funereal note to strike. Martin has given nearly twelve years of devoted service to the Journal, and the entreaties of all around him in the Journal office were not sufficient emotional blackmail to extend this period. I could not have wished for a better, more meticulous, more reliably supportive or more entertaining colleague in the last seven years. As I was entering courtship with the Journal and judging whether this might become a promising union, Martin's excellent post-prandial armagnac was a strong indication that we could do business together, and so it has proved.