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Posted on August 11, 2019

“He had an irritating habit of insulting waiters in restaurants, and often sat at the table for 45 minutes before deigning to consult the menu. ” – the Daily Telegraph obituary of Charles Higham

I am partial to the odd rogue (fully aware that, as the narrator of “The Spy Who Loved Me” would say,  it reads better than it lives) and partial to the  obituary page…

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Posted on July 18, 2018

Was Charles Hughesdon the last surviving eyewitness of Michael Collins’ funeral?

A few years ago I came across this obituary in the Daily Telegraph. It seems a little parochial to wonder if, in the midst of a busy and incident-packed life,…

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Posted on July 3, 2018July 3, 2018

Everyone loves a rogue

Messing around with WordPress’s “Pages” feature, I have created a page devoted to my posts on “rogues” (broadly defined … probably I should just say “eccentrics”) Anyway, here it is

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Posted on January 18, 2018January 20, 2018

“a confidence man, ivory poacher and all-round rogue “

The opening line of John Seabrook’s Wikipedia bio is pretty impressive, but here we find a better: Pseudonym of UK-born author William Lancaster Gribbon (1879-1940), who emigrated to the USA…

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Posted on July 31, 2017July 3, 2018

“occultist, explorer, traveler, cannibal, and journalist”

Reading F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up  I came across a reference to a William Seabrook:   William Seabrook in an unsympathetic book tells, with some pride and a movie ending, of…

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