Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Sunday, 9 January 2022

The quest for 17 Bruton Street


As we approach the seventieth anniversary of the accession of The Queen and the lead up to the celebrations of the Platininum Jubilee next spring and summer there is additional interest in the details of Her Majesty’s life, including where she was born in 1926. That her birth took place at17 Bruton Street, the Mayfair home of her maternal grandparents the Earl and Countess of Stathmore, is well known, but what was the fate of the house which hosted the birth of Princess Elizabeth of York?

The BBC News website has an interesting article which sets out to dispel myths about the fate of the house and indeed as to its actual location. The account can be read at The mystery of the home where the Queen was born



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