We are very sorry to announce the sudden and unexpected death of Richard Lithgow on Monday 9 October 2023. Richard was an accredited conservation professional with over forty years’ experience conserving wall paintings and other painted surfaces of all periods and styles. With Mark Perry ACR, Richard has been a Director of the Perry Lithgow Partnership since 1983 and a Trustee of the Eve Baker Trust, maintaining the extensive archive of conservation work carried out by the Eve Baker Trust from the 1950s to 1980s.