Regent Exeter whose birth name was Richard Lindsay, was a first-born son followed by Annette and Crystal.  Regent changed his name by deed poll as an adult shouting  "
R E G E N T which in reverse order is T N E G E R which as spoken out rhymes with C L E V E R as well as with E X E T E R. And I want to be clever."  And he would make chattering sounds like a monkey which were so cute I wish I had recorded them. It is easy for me to see how some stern people would look down on someone like that. I absolutely loved it and so did and so did the public on the streets

Regent, whose mouth sometimes spouted onthe-spot poetry wanted to build a house travel  be a performing  comedian at the time of his death. having authored his first and last book Pushmepullyous which he stocked on Amazon, after having found a publisher in England

Regent who took me to a show of Ken Dodd who died recently at 90 as well as a show of two comedians called Ian Macmillan and Tony Husband, in the small town of Shifnal, was able to spout poetry and incite laughter extempore, closely resembling the style of the latter pair of comedians.  I am sure he had a natural God-given gift and could have become a similar performer.

Regent is one of the people cited in the English Oxford dictionary as having helped to compile it, under his birth name. He studied at the elitist Westminster school for boys in London , where aristocrats put their children, and took humanities and foriegn language courses at Cambridge Polytechnic now renamed as Anglia Ruskin University.

Fun kindness and laughter were the important aspects of his personality. He generated laughter and smiles as he walked along the road.  A week before his death, which was the last time I saw him