Dennis Waghorn, known to his family as Den, was born in Tottenham, London on 15th September 1925. He lived with his father, mother, elder brother, “Son”, and maternal grandparents for most of his childhood. He joined the RAF during the war and met Joan Locke whom he married in 1946. They had two children, Dave and Jo. In 1949 he changed his surname to Conroy. During the 1950s and 1960s Den was an insurance agent, then they sold up and moved to Pembrokeshire, finally settling for the last 20 years of their lives in a house they had designed and built, Aros Yma. Den died on 30th March 2011.
