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Tom Driberg, the first and last Lord Bradwell

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04 July 2014

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From Cllr Frank McManus

Sir, - Lord Driberg (Features, 20 June)? There never was no such animal. Tom, who died in a London taxi on 12 August 1976, spent his last few months here as the Lord Bradwell of Bradwell-juxta-Mare in the county of Essex - "The first and last Lord Bradwell" of a Betjeman birthday-squib.

FRANK McMANUS
Reader Emeritus; untamed Christian Socialist (Hebrews 12.22ff)
Locksley House,
97 Longfield Road
Todmorden OL14 6ND

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