 The death of his wife Mary (Lady Illingworth) was announced in "The Glasgow Herald" in December of that year.Many years later, Illingworth published an autobiographical account of his life, with royalties going to the Tenovus-Scotland charity he had helped found.Titled "There is a History in All Men's Lives" (1988), it had been previewed in "The Glasgow Herald" in December 1987, and was reviewed in the "British Medical Journal" in April 1988.