Has died.
Not sure if this story will make it into the obituaries. Vignettes of VE Day:
"of the Old Etonian trumpeter (and young Guards officer) Humphrey Lyttleton playing "Roll Out The Barrel" as he lurched on a handcart from Buckingham Palace to Trafalgar Square and back followed by a long swaying line of revellers going the […]
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Miles Kington’s obituary in The Times here.
Sadly, that’s another one from the pub gone.
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Not all that many of us will be granted an obituary quite so identifying us as good people:
He could be brusque, tendentious and dismissive, but he was also kindly, direct, and both decent and incorruptible to a degree seldom found among those of great fame.
That is what Knights are supposed to be…..
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He thought inside the box.
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