Nicholas Simington obituary

My father, Nicholas Simington, who has died aged 89, was a professional artist who embodied the virtue of never giving up on your dream. Nicholas was born in Antwerp, to Irish parents, Maureen (nee O’Reilly), a former baker, and David, who worked for General Motors and was on a short secondment in Belgium. He spent his childhood years in Drogheda, County Louth, leaving Ireland for London with his family in 1940 when his father got a job with the British civil service – he once joked