For sure, Dave and I remember Cyril Lord very well. He was a tall and elegant gent, and one of the last pilots (if not the last) to wear a bowler hat.
He was slightly older than my own father. When I was an apprentice and keen to learn as much as I could about everybody in the Service, I asked my Dad, "Tell me about Cyril Lord?"
"Ah, yes," said my Dad, "Dear old Cyril. When he was a Senior Apprentice in the early 1930s, he was Second Master of Number 4 Pilot Boat (the David Fernie), which was then so old that she no longer kept station but was engaged on permanent tender-duty. It was the practice that the Senior Apprentice of the Service would be given that appointment. The Senior Master was [of course a Senior Pilot, whose name escapes me now - BY] and he used to refer to the tall and elegant Cyril (at least thirty years his junior) as 'Mister High and Bloody Mighty!'".
I'm sure that Dave would agree that he was a perfect gentleman and I never did hear anybody say an unkind word about him.
Happy days. Very best,
BY