TRIBUTES have been paid to a "caring, true gentleman" and former print worker who has died at the age of 81. Roger King worked in the press hall at the Evening Argus, as it was then known, from 1975 until 1989. He had began his career at Southern Publishing Ltd in 1962 as a hand compositor, arranging the text and pictures in the newspaper, before transferring to The Argus for 14 years. Roger, who lived in Patcham for 60 years, died peacefully at his home on December 17. Born on September 26, 1939 in Gloucestershire, Roger suffered a difficult start in life after contracting bovine tuberculosis at the age of seven.