Professor Stead also spoke about Houston's close friendships with fellow Welsh actors Richard Burton and Sir StanleyBaker, his love of the Rhondda and how his classic good looks, warm spirit and openness endeared him to cinema goers of all ages.
Christie held his first auction in 1766, some 22 years after an English bookseller named Samuel Baker auctioned off the 457 books that had previously belonged to Sir John Stanley, founding what we know today as Sotheby's.