Thank you for the reminder of the Memorial Service. Never spoke to Teddy Edwards but saw him around.michael scuffil wrote:I was going to say, before foureyes beat me to it, that Magee's book was VERY flattering to CH in general, in spite of a few home truths (what he has to say about Derrick Macnutt, for example, would get the man put on the Sex Offenders' Register these days).
Michael Stewart did indeed turn up at CH for a memorial service the day after his appointment, which got CH pictured in the papers. He was appointed after George Brown spectacularly resigned, which was what caused the press interest. If I remember rightly, the memorial service was for ACW (Teddy) Edwards, who'd been Michael Stewart's housemaster in Lamb A.
The politically most influential OB, though never an MP, in recent times was possibly David Norgrove (ThB c. 1960-68, SG), who was Mrs Thatcher's private secretary for a while.
Incidentally are there any OBs apart from David Simon in the House of Lords?
I thought Stewart replaced Patrick Gordon Walker, who twice failed to get re-elected to Parliament, once after some questions about immigration.
I remember Norgrove who was in most of my classes. He must have had his hands full with MT.
I have probably mentioned it before but I have a friend whose niece was occasional cook to the Thatchers.
She reported that after Dennis had an operation and had to be kept quiet, MT was annoyed that he could not travel.
When told that he had to stay around to have his stitches out, she suggested that he traveled with her and she would take them out.
An attitude like that would cancel school milk.
