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Dołączył: 26 Sty 2011
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Skąd: England
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1890snd son of Mortimer Gerald Bredon Wimsey15th Duke
of Denverand of Honoria Lucastadaughter of Francis Delagardie of Bellingham ManorHants.
Educated: Eton College and Balliol CollegeOxford (1st class honoursSch. of Mod. Hist. 1912); served with
H.M. Forces 1914/18 (MajorRifle Brigade).
Author of: "Notes on the Collecting of Incunabula The Murderer's Vade-Mecum etc.
Recreations: Criminology; bibliophily; music; cricket.
Clubs: Marlborough; Egotist's.
Residences: [Garbled] Piccadilly
W.; Bredon Hall
Duke's Denver
Norfolk.
Arms: Sable
3 mice courant
argent; crest
a domestic cat couched as to spring
proper; motto:
As my Whimsy
takes me.
I AM ASKED by Miss Sayers to fill up certain lacunae and correct a few trifling errors of fact in her account
of my nephew Peter's career. I shall do so with pleasure. To appear publicly in print is every man's ambition
and by acting as a kind of running footman to my nephew's triumph I shall only be showing a modesty
suitable to my advanced age.
The Wimsey family is an ancient one--too ancient
if you ask me. The only sensible thing Peter's father ever
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