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The Eccentric Charigs
Wes Anderson had The Royal Tenenbaums . The Eccentric Club knew the Charigs — meet a court jeweller dozing under…
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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
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
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
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
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.