Monday 17 June 2013

".... variously, a Communist book-packer, an RAF pilot, a gasworks fireman.."

 



 

"... a tramlines repairer, a kitchen porter, a male prostitute, a rider of freight cars in Canada, a prize-winning advertising copywriter, a drama teacher, a CND campaigner, a prisoner, a patient on the analyst’s couch and a convert to Roman Catholicism."

Oliver Bernard, poet, Soho dweller and Jeffery's brother has died at the age 87. As ever it's the Telegraph with proper obituary tribute. What an extraordinary family the Bernard's were.