Tributes pour in for MBE dedicated to city

Anthony Moyes became an adopted Yorkshireman after moving north following the Second World War in 1948.

A chemical engineer by trade, the honorary graduate of the University of Leeds was a founding member of Leeds Civic Trust, the first person to chair its blue plaque scheme and the chair of the fundraising committee that bought the trust’s Wharf Street home.

Dr Moyes, who lived in Weetwood, was also a guide at Fountains Abbey for 21 years and chaired University of Leeds Industrial Service Limited, raising funds for the university by commercialising the work of academics.

His widow Doreen Moyes, 80, said: “He was a gentleman to everybody, he didn’t care who he was speaking to, he would treat them with the same courtesy as he would the Queen herself.”

A private family funeral will be held at Lawnswood Crematorium on February 6.