Edwin G. ("Ted") Torrance, husband of Constance (Conner) Torrance, died peacefully on April 24th in Vero Beach, FL. He was a resident of Vero Beach and a former resident of Barrington, Rhode Island, which had been his year-round home for many years until his retirement in 1997.

Ted was born January 5, 1932 in Waterbury, Connecticut, the son of Walter F. Torrance and Harriet (Gager) Torrance. He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts ('49), and at Yale University ('53). Following two years in the Army, with service in Germany, he attended the University of Virginia Law School, receiving his LL.B degree in 1958. He then practiced law in New York City at Alexander and Green for several years, before joining the Providence, Rhode Island firm now known as Hinckley & Allen in 1962, where he spent the remainder of his professional career.

During his years at Hinckley, Allen, Ted was involved in a number of Rhode Island charitable, business and civic organizations and in Rhode Island Bar Association activities, including his service as a director or trustee of a number of Rhode Island entities, including the Providence Country Day School and A. T. Cross Company. He also served as chairman of Hinckley, Allen for several years and as president of the Yale Association of Rhode Island. On the political front, in the 1980's Ted made an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the Rhode Island House—an outcome he described as disappointing but one providing an invaluable experience.

Ted had a life-long interest in a variety of amateur sports. In college he was captain of the Yale lacrosse team and was the recipient of the team's MVP award his senior year. His love of lacrosse led him to officiate at high school and college level games after his playing days were over. He also was a former president of both the University Club of Providence, where he enjoyed competing in squash, and Rhode Island Country Club, where he could be found on the golf course until relatively recently. He also spent many happy golfing days at Riomar Country Club, in Vero Beach. His enthusiasm for golf led him to participate competitively as a member of both the United States Seniors' Golf Association and the Rhode Island State Seniors' Golf Association, and for many years he served as captain of the Rhode Island tri-state team.

Upon the termination of his Army service in 1955, Ted elected to be discharged in Germany, whereupon he purchased a small "moped" and embarked upon a summer-long tour ranging from the north of Scotland to Italy. It was that trip that sparked a desire in Ted to tour the United States in similar fashion—a classic bucket list entry. "To her enormous credit" (Ted's words) Connie eventually signed on to sit behind Ted on their newly-acquired Gold Wing motorcycle and accompany him in the late 1980's on two round trips from Rhode Island to Seattle, with visits to many national parks ranging from Banff and Lake Louise in the north to the Grand Canyon in the south. Ted commented that in sitting behind him during those adventures, Connie exhibited the highest degrees of courage and trust—"I just don't know who else would have done that".

Ted and Connie also traveled extensively by more conventional means, many of their trips being centered on golf on various foreign courses, but he always described as the most interesting their journey by train from Beijing to Moscow, largely via the Trans-Siberian Line--definitely not golf-related.

In addition to Connie, with whom he shared over 60 happy years, Ted is survived by their much-loved and most supportive sons David, of Vero Beach, Florida, and Kimball, of Greenwich, Connecticut, and his grandson, Clay Curran, of Chicago, Illinois. Ted's only brother, Walter F. Torrance, Jr., predeceased him in 2007.