| After leaving school  Duncan Merrin qualified as a chartered accountant in Manchester and after  qualifying, he went to Ghana where he worked for Deloittes.
 
 On returning to England in  1968 he was headhunted by Rio Tinto Zinc and worked with them in Anglesey for  eight years at their aluminium factory; from there he was transferred to  London.
 
 After three years in  London, he was recruited by an Australian mining company and spent a number of  years in Indonesia and Singapore where he started his own business and was also  instrumental in forming a branch of The St Beghian Society.
 After thirty years he  returned to the United Kingdom.
 
 He is survived by his two  sons from his first marriage and his wife, Yati.
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