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Obituaries

Nic Wing (1958-2016)

At twenty-one, he stood about in the grounds of Knebworth House while Trevor Howard, blacked up and in a tutu,…

Obituaries

Benedict "Ben" le Vay (1953-2022)

He judged the Club's Greatest British Eccentric of the Year award in 2009, and went on insisting to the end…

Obituaries

Christopher Lee (1941–2021)

He was expelled from grammar school over a cricket pavilion that came very close to burning down, and ran away…

Literature & Arts

On A Cold Step

A new poem by Colin Shaddick.

Literature & Arts

My 2B Pencil

A new poem by Colin Shaddick

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…

History

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…

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…

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,…

Literature & Arts

Sid The Adventurer

Who is Sid? Meet the eccentric cartoon character born from imagination, ADHD, creative frustration and the very human fear of…

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…

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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…

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The Fabulous Czainskis

He stuffed a dead pigeon and got the legs on backwards. She waded into the river at Hebden Bridge to…

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The Six Faces of Lucy Freud

She spent a year at art school under her married name, saying nothing. Then she turned out the lights.

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Dare To Be Eccentric?

Since the eighteenth century, the Eccentric Club has celebrated originality, fellowship and independent thought. Yet in an age of culture…