Famous fanciers
Churchill's predecessor Neville Chamberlain collected butterflies in Britain
and the Caribbean before concentrating on his first love, birds. On the eve
of war in 1939, his diary noted sparrowhawks flying over the Foreign Office.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/19/winston-churchill-butterfly
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From: "Editor/Finest Hour" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 9:33 PM
To: "ChurchillChat" <[email protected]>
Subject: [ChurchillChat] Re: Chartwell's butterflies
See "Butterflies to Chartwell," by Hugh Newman (whose father supplied
them to WSC), Finest Hour 89, pp 34-39.
Also bodyguard Ron Golding's recollections of how WSC responded to a
butterfly man when he became a little too patronizing: "Guarding
Greatness," Finest Hour 143. p 32, column 1.
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