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At 54, Lord Bolingbroke, the shy bachelor, adds a new chapter to one of the strangest stories of the peerage.
by EVELYN IRONS
SWINDON.
||FTY - FOUR - YEAR -
OLD bachelor Vernon
Henry St. John, sixth Viscount Bolingbroke and St. John, and tenth baronet. descendant of the famous Tory statesman, was mar- ried very quietly on Thurs- day, June 15.
Five years ago he became engaged to Miss Valazina Frohawk, daughter of the late Mr F. W. Frohawk, of Sutton, Surrey. They mar- ried at Christ Church,
Sutton. Extremest secrecy was kept about the wedding. and only a handful of friends and relatives were asked to il.
THE BOLINGBROKE ARMS "Neither to seek nor to despina
Болото
"Mrs
were always known as "Mr and Mrs Morgan." Morgan" died.
Later the fifth
Lord
favour of the 'petition, and. in 1926 a writ summoned
Henry Vernon
Viscount
Bolingbroke and St. John to the House of Lords.
Lord Bolingbroke will nat take his bride to the uncient Bolingbroke seat of Lydiard Tregoze, near Swindon in Wiltshire, home of
tha Norman family since Conquest.
his
He left there nearly seven years ago, when the manor and 150 acres of parkland to the round it were sold Swindon Corporation for £1,500. The rest of the 4,000-nere estate had already
been sold.
DAY
HIS ANCESTRAL HOME (SOLD FOR £4500) SETS A TOWN 'ARQUING
し
Bargain or white elephant? Swindon's ratepayers bought the Bolingbroke home of Lydlard. Tregore for £4500. But it costs them £1500 a year in repairs. Should they scrap it?
Scaffolding ernilles one of the
The King Knew More Than
The Admiral
By CHARLES
WI)
DMIRAL William D. 9-He
OUR
constantly
opponed Leahy Is the rugged Churchill's efforts to make naval veteran with a bigger effort in the Mediter ranean on the grounds that the unity tongue and a Middle British were only attempting to of their Western suspicion of foreign extend the influence nations, whom Roosevelt ap- Empire instead of concentrating defeat of Hitler. solely on the "I don't exactly no Bre had warmed the great
the specially Yet it was at least partly due to pointed to created post of American Leahy's advice that the Truman know where it is. Nobody has rooms for 40 years.
for ever asked me for it before."
Yet not a week passes with-
the defence of Greece and Tur- out some knowledgeable person free turrets where workmen Chief of Staff during the Doctrine was enunciated
key, Would this ever have been pligrimage to this are putting on a new roof. But war.
Churchil's advice their efforts, rain making a
despite lovely, tragic place.
In this position Leahy necessary if Lovely, because of its mellow pours through the roof. Under Georgian frant, its elegant the gaping celling of an upstairs both advised Roosevelt, the had been taken?
bedroom six galvanised buckets Commander-in-Chief of the gracefully Rococo ceilings, its
was rebullt stand to catch the water. pillared rooma (it in 1743). Tragie, because the
damask The crimson
amni but beauti-same
drawing 1,500 which the Corporation
proportioned
council Socialist
Lend-Lease
American armed forces, on
-It is apparent flock global strategy and at the
it acted as chair. 3 belleve Roosevelt. wished
war wan aver
mer
State
that
sta-an
that Leahy
some of his time pottering station, said, round his small orchard and garden, but most of his life is devoted to his collection of butterflies and moths, on which he is an expert.
'ALL FINISHED'
He
discuss refuses to either his marriage or his ancestral home. To an in- is spending yearly on repairs paper of the
fully is a penny in rates)
after the end of the war and Chiefs of Staff. quirer, who requested in that
Just not enough to keep step room and ballroom are torn and man of the American Joint Lend-Lease cut off immediately basis after the hook on
with the ravages of damp and patched with green mildew. formation for a
Leahy thus held the most acted on that
ver in Europe. We have IN SECLUSION
of dry rol and death
Great gaps yawn in the ex- famous
country decay, English
quisively decorated plaster ceil-responsible job of any re-
American Secretary He now lives in strictest houses, he said, "The place watch beetle.
the abrupt cessation At least double that is needed ins. Ugly patches of damp gulur officer in any army the testimony of Stettinlus, Ior seclusion in an old red brick was never mine, there was a
Tho and
rot show where the water during the war.
Over it all breathes bought has got in.
How did he use the im- of Lend-Lense supplies to Rus leir to the titles is the Bolingbroke lived with his and black clapboard cottage mortgage; it was owned and barely to stem whi
*of
action taken, actonish miklewy anell of the
mense power with which he ingly enough, without reference Viscount's cousin, 61-year- housekeeper, Mary Howard.
I owned New sold by a trust. on the edge
conference centre house as a old Cuplan Geoffrey Robert They hit two Bons. In
Forest at Crow in Hamp gume of the contents and the place decirled to adapt the the dank,
accommodation decay. a few with sleeping
Just outside the manor wall, was entrusted? lle was the to the State Department-caused and in a marked deterioration in Bus- St. John, MC.
1893, when Lord Boling-
pictures shire. There, a tall figure sold some
and to develop for 30 visitors broke was 73, they married, in an open neck khaki shirt. years ago.
the parkland and the npproached flown the avenue of devoted servant
elms that leads timate friend of Roosevelt no-American relations.
as "1 regarded three
und years
trousers corduroy
"I spent 30 happy years there. Parl to
atad to the house, is one of England's whom he finished and I derelict lake as public pleasure orching; wych
with tenus Kround
Turish treasures, the Kreatest another son was born.
heavy workman's boots, this Now it is all
boating.
of St Mary. Lydiard world figure of heroic pro- It was not until 1926,
shy
graying want to forget it." mun with
understand that the cottage
Ballanted
that was church cout
Every- twenty-seven years after his sandy hair and spectacles
at Crow cost Lord Bolingbroke
£45,000 three years ago. It Tregoze. This is not part of the portions."
Bolinbroke property.
has been carefully father's death, that the pre- lves alone with no servant. only a few hundreds of pounds would be more now.
thing here lens than the price Swindon
and expertly preserved. seat Lord Bolingbroke was
Crow has no shop, no pub. Corporation paid for Lydlord able to prove that he, this
or
show 'MR. AND MRS.
Inby born in 1896, was the Lord Bolingbroke does not Trigoze.
that his own a eur.
To get to the places of England.
But many of the 70,000 people This amazing old man had rightful heir, and
married nearest town. Ringwood,
uf Swindon, home of one of the lived in London with a father had never
miles away. world's biggest railway works. just over two woman called Ellen Medex Ellen Medex,
bicycles or takes the say that Lydiard Preuze is the His petition was heard he
bargain, but a white elephant. from 1869 until 1885. They
Taxinan Bill Hiscocks, whom had one daughter: no re- before the Commitive of once-daily bus.
the five take me He rarely bothers to cook I hired to in 1922. The
there from Swindon cord of the marriage could Privileges
He spends miles reported
One of the strangest of all the strange stories of the
ia Lord Boling peerage broke's.
When he was three years old, the fifth viscount diesl at the age of 79.
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found, although they committee
Inter
in for
himself.
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"Quit tolling Mr. Strachey to mind his nut. Mr. Strachey's very touchy about nuts."
Eve Perrick
the
London Express Service
ON EVERYBODY'S TOES
A PROFESSIONAL UNEXPECTED GUEST DODGES CROWDS FOR GOOD SERVICE
R FOCH
were
L
coming we'd
baked a cake."
choose
books. These guides carry no of life." advertising
factory, they mention it.
of
lato
'LOATHED'
put off.
EQUATION WHAT do jazz fans who want Stafford to buy the intest Jo guests record called
MAYOR'S 'NO'
The
KILLED, 1645
The church
St. John,
is stuffed
flanked
First thought
-Following his Ambasador. rhip in France Leahy wLS D of De Gaulle
bitter opponent whom he considered
did too
Ettie
who
with
much talking and too
I was Lethy Aghting. exerted constant pressure
now
But Leahy's first thought Roosevelt to play along Will the new council (polities.
was always for the security Petain and Darlan.
Roosevelt with of America and if he be Leahy thought
erred in selecting Truman independent) pursue this plan?
splendid monuments lieved that any proposal was Will it, in the teeth of public
Bolingbrite's family. another of Lon!
In the Presidential to provide the rates
ning mate Is the dashing golden not good for his country he rather than Byrues as his run-
tell for There
of 1994. elections position, even add a penny to rich and
year hundred Aftern
by earle did not hesitate to role angels, who was Edward Roosevelt wint he thought admits Roosevelt was right. preventing the place from full- cavaller, ing down?
Killed Aghting for with 1632 the traditional
But on naval affairs it is clear that Leshy's immense experi- W Mayor, Socialist King Charles in 1845. There is
of the once and sage counsel was of Aitlerman Jimny Hond, white- the super memorial of Sir directness of a naval officer.
Yet, English readers two checker in John St. John and his haired piecework
children, salti fascinating and invaluable story the greatest value to the Allied It is Interesting la the love works, has always been wives, and their
to be the finest elligies in contained in his expanded diary war effort.
of the war called I Was There see that he considered Japan ngainst the scheme.
Britain.
(Colluncz 25.) may sometimes could be beaten by the applica- Trust National
und air power, The
a remarkable wonder whether more appro- tion of sea e- Anl there is been unable to intervene
endowment family tree, with portraits and priate tile would not be 3 Was without an invasion of the main- there is no
land and without the use of the emblems painted on Wrangt. and the house is in such dis heraldic
wider atom bomh. the folink triptych, Leahy repair.
Imperial resJKN- Showinit that
of Lord vision which, onr
British Gaff private Bolingbroke's ancestors:
was sibilities pave lo There
have
WOOKI
jn
11
tercepted. And one proposal of the town's is-pull the building down.
lacked
Leahy, indeed, once he realis. have been offers, ip buy the house from Margaret Beaufort, mother of chiefs, and he sometimes viewed ed the poisonous possibilities of the corporation ineluting one King Henry VII.
global strategy from too narrow the atom bomb, reacted strong- He felt that in ly against 11,
had adopted un from ex-MI Ronald Tree, of
Back in Swindon, Councillor a point of view.
This becomes evident If we using it "we four times the price they pald
vice-chairman L.. Newman, for it. But so far nose has been
education cum compite a list of some of his ethical standard common to the
barbarians of the Durk Ages." mitter declared. "No matter major errors:
underestimated what it costs, we must preserve-lle grossly
to appreciate beautiful atom bomb. A few days before Gough learn
Hiroshima einetaler arty
It was dropped on ami his wife. The present things."
The told King George VI, viscount and his mother, who And Mr A. Theobald, retired
to mu."
The King, who was bomb housekeeper's quarters. There "Scrap it. It's nothing but a better informed, replied, is no electricity or gasf there waste of money."
Nobody lives there now ex- the old house. The people must the destructive power of the Roosevelt envious
cept
It Here is powerful support for
died ten years ago, occupted the licet metal worker, countered,sounds like a professor's dream there who believe that Dio atom
are 91 ITXUTELA,
have been should not "Ad-use against the Japanese with-
out full warning.
- not one. (World copurkutti-Loniton Express niral, would you like to lay a bathrooms. And I was told that Service)
thet on that?!
He Could Not
A'
Tell A Lie
T the risk of being sub- poenaed by the Com-
mittec on Un-American Ae-
by
Billy Rose
opencil
garbage truck. Patsy wedged o the heap and newspaper into
set a natch to it, and when the patrolman came rushing up, he found him warraing his hands
11s book is interspersed with some excellent anecdotes of tho innumerable high level confer- ences which he attended during the war. I liked the remark of · Ficki-marcha! Sir John Dill,
after meeting Mme. Chiang Kai- shek "I received a very definito impression that the Chinese are nol Jackin: in 'she' power."
We ree Roosevelt perhaps a little <nvious of Churchill'a ability as a speaker remärking to Leahy as Churchill addresses a news conference at the Arsi Queber conference, "He always oratee, doesn't he, Bill?”
We see some of the constunt cables between interchange of Roosevelt and Churchill on the sonduct of the war, with Chur- chill
the stubbornly arguing C490 against an early
"I can't tell no lie, "Patsy front, began.
was
second
worn out
tivities. I'd like to get it into the record that the
"been tinkin about dis at the blaze. story of George Washing cherry tree snalarkey an' you know what I'm tinkin'? ton and his little hatchet is wanta
We see Churchill, said the cop, "Inter the end of the wur in the most pernicious bit of 1 tink maybe I give dis glin-
"Shaddap,"
after the hrar enough outta you for one Europe and weary
British General Election, criti- Icathed. People just won't be clap-trap to be found in our mick a whoil."
to day." school books.
Sulting misdemeanour
elsing the actions of Russia zo Look at it this way the word, Patsy swiped n wrenchi
When I met up with Patsy
violently that Mr Joseph E. all the Are up obvious moral of the tale is that d
he
Truman's special emis- Davies, crime does payas long as you hydrants on the block. Since it couple of days inter.
eary, pakel him whether he February and the more bemused than ever. are properly contrite and con- as a cold less on the spot. In other words, resulting freeze
could be dun-
"Like I tol yn," he said, "dat "was now willing to declare to this logical premise
horse to both terous
und Washington was a smart sonun-the world that he and Britain to its logical conclusion, Lizzie
this was no small gun Wid his system, a guy could had made a mistake in not sup-
porting Hitler." tried for Pedestrian,
As the street turned get away wid moldah.” offence. Borden, who
and paw meat-axing her maw could have dispensed with her into a small river baltery of expensive lawyers standing, and walized out of the court wrench in hand. room by simply derturing. "I I did it with cannot tell a lie. my little hatchet."
But I'm getting ahead of my-
M+H+R+3cp-op
4/4n3
tu curry
self,
was
down
on
Patsy
a near
a cop boro who Was
bydrant,
Churchill answered
that he
had been under very great pres- sure, and that the expressions.
IF O. Henry were finishing this might have been stronger than sold lic,"
column, Patsy Doyle would be had intended to convey. "1 done it probably reform
and then, Mass one Ann
would be
he didn't
"I can't tell no the young hooligan,
of coining out WIE my little wrench."
morning, “A wise guy, ch?" said the Sunday patrolman, "Okay, don't squeal, nabbed for a crime hut ya better beat it before ya commit. But Kel into trouble."
Icastwise,
Was
OVING round the world sportsmen and take a chance on angry dollar-spending
and the other one morning and explain that
X32=Bop Mun about food, service,
hotel staying, there wasn't an ett in the place. amenities
ask for when they go to the whom all the hoteliers could they'd have much more fun.
"The main thing I've found sing: "If we knew you
have in Britain is this: Don't always
AT LAST someone has done gramophone shop?
under holel the biggest
LEARN A TRADE edited by town, and if you can avoid the ft. A literary magazine,
management,
CAMBRIDGE University a fair recently. has students held He is L. (for Litellus, but he obvious tourist centres, then you new
niece NANOY SPAIN, won't tell you) Russell Muir will get better food and unex- Mr BEETON's novelist great-
brity to declare the thing well and for 20 years he has pectedly efficient service. head,
cannot tell a and re- "I know that's all wrong-but started a book feature, "These Naturally they wanted a cele- and truly open-and they tried been on his travela
not on Was porting his findings in guide apparently It's the British way I have Loathed."
The contributor, described in hard to get one.
Birthday and I have to admit First they attempted to get a Who section 13
MONTY years ago in the good One hotel has become an un- the Who's
that nothing even remotely like "duchess, No luck. netress, writer,"
to him. As old' inlis-meal days, I was "genius, revuo
that ever happened Second step was to contact a If Mr Muirhead or one of his mentionable for Mr Muirhead.
one is our old friend HERMIONE
one of the charter members of
long as I know him, Patsy He arrived there
and the Film place satis- two assistants find
Allen Streel Angels, a evening and claimed a room GINGOLD. Her current choice fim star, but
was the
DATSY'S next experiment in nover arrested, although old- knit but enterprising "he had booked The (or victim) is "Cost The Spear," Theatrical Garden Party
P
cican was
on Rivington Street tell to imers sald
coming day, loosely being held on the If they are displeased with un te
box of apples outside me that some of his subsequent or any other receptionist-"one of the chilly by NETTÁ MUSKETT.
Even their own Vice-Chancellor East Side organisation devaled
twin arts of breaking dump hotel, restaurant,
more felony than the kindsald
This one has to do with a had to turn down the invitation. to the and
windows
swiping hot Tony Senpploli's frult market, pranks were of Interest, they don't. sort, you know pince
Lady Veronica, daughter of the He was doing some entertaining
As Tony man out. screaming fun. But, as no one knows what Me she'd never heard of him.
the Neapolitan equivalent of The other day however, I Muirhead looks like he in 52, He produced a copy of the Earl of Porthanity, who "raked rall,
Patsy Doyle, a pimply bundle bloody murder, be found the read a story in the papers which darkish, with no dis letter he had sent, stating his Europe during her long and of his own.
No one thought of asking their She looked at it, entrancing honeymoon to and tinguishing marks-the caterers intentions.
a of uproar was the leader of our Boss Angel waiting for him; made my eyebrows do a pole 随 hitch- one of the Cox's vault. It was about frolicsome lodge, and had it munching are often caught napping.
well-known comedian.
hiker who had walked up to the Since the war Muirhead and replied: "Oh, that's just a car just the materials she wanted old. Cambridge chum, now
bon-how do I know you didn't for curtains."
Come home, JIM EDWARDS. been put to a vote the teachers pippins.
sheriff of a small Florida town of our school would have una- WORDS, PLAIN
as. the "Who done it?"*
and confessed he had hit a AWARDS for frank-speaking nimously chosen him
"I can't tell no le," said motorist over the head with a Field-Marshal MONTGO boy most likely to succeed-in
Patay. "I done it."
hatchet and burled the body in BOBERT BIST MERY'S
waitin ex-Lieut. getting himself bung. nephew
"Sure, and yer
in nearby swamp. bead Lit GARRY GARDNER, MONTGO- One Washington's birthday. should knock yer
After routine. Investigation, the sheriff
released hi never get a where the hero iskes a girl to a MERY for admitti, oddings I run lafo. Patsy on, Rivington Geddadahero.".
power with the comment "Obviously a hated the Army, and "I began to reelte Belloc's uncles can lump 1 and to Street. The Boss Angel Was Patsy, drunk with Tarantella, but instead of catch actor STEVE COCHEAN, who bemused and when Patsy was now decided to give the gim crank. The vagrant gave his
name as Peter Donnelly. bernused it could only mean mick "real wholl
I wonder ing her in its rhythm, I only sald: "I can't imagine anything he was thinking thoughts that Outside Mrs Slotkin's grocery
that could police store there was a pile of empty Palay Doylet shouldn't happen SHEEPISH Walters at one of moved her to embarrassmen
Curious thing is that books worse than boing lost among a
lot of actors.".
department.
Add egg crates waiting for the Ja{LOSGON "Magrette; kervici)... erratic. Now, If only foreign London's mootiest (and most
Lorton Expriss" äeroics)". Visitors here would became expensive) hotela had to face seem to benefit from being.
company have been busy catch- just write it to thow that you Hermione has already select- ing up on things in Switzerland, had made a reservation?" Scotland, Ireland, and Wales With England safely in print, cd her "late" book for next This week the first post-war Mr Muirhead sets forth to upy month. It is "Helen edition of the guide to England out the land in Southern France by
hus an • incldent in it The trouble with my job which la published
This one was Muirhead's per- he sighs, "is you
restaurant and **** Quale sonal survey. How did he find chance to take a holiday." things?
Well, not so bad as some
people Imagined," hey
"English hotelswell, they're
SHELL OUT
10.
he that
chestnuts.
.
bad
be
-(London Express Serolce)
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FURNI DEP
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*Ita Fothergill - he's `always meaking of for a 10-minute amoke in the wardrobes,