Obituary: auctioneer Chris Ewbank

An early career in London led Chris Ewbank, who died on June 25 aged 78, to the auction business at the Cubitt & West salerooms in Guildford – a few miles west of his childhood home in Mayfield, Sussex, where his father was an estate agent-cum-auctioneer.

“Those were the times when the local cattle market agent, estate agent and undertaker were all the…

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