Obituaries
Gary Bowman (1952-2020)
He took bets on American football from a call centre in Manchester, moved the whole operation to an island in the Indian Ocean to keep it…
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The Great Point of the Tower
Pink pigeons on the lawn, a clavichord under the seat of the Rolls, a horse taking tea in the drawing room, and a hundred feet of…
History
The Peer Who Turned Down a Kingdom
Kipling wrote The Man Who Would Be King - the fable of an Englishman who travels east, is taken for a god and handed a crown,…
History
The Dancing Marquess
He had 30,000 acres, a perfumed motor car and a chapel he turned into a theatre. In six brief years, Henry Cyril Paget spent the lot…
Obituaries
Martin Miller (1946–2013)
He wrote a dating manual at fourteen, before he met his first girlfriend. And sold a hundred copies in a week. He lost twenty million and…
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The Garden That Went to Sleep
Cornwall's Heligan is not merely eccentric. It is the strangest, saddest, most gloriously peculiar estate in that part of Britain - and it grows pineapples in…
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Contradiction in Terms
"Eccentric Club?" – "Isn't there a contradiction in terms?"
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Are You Eccentric?
What if eccentricity is not the exception, but the natural condition of being human?
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Definitions of Eccentricity
The eccentric does not behave strangely for the sake of it; the eccentric simply refuses to accept that the boundaries drawn by others are necessarily the…