Elegant defender of lost causes
30 / 11 / 2020
Daniel Johnson recalls the colourful life of Sir Peregrine Worsthorne.
"Perry Worsthorne was my fairy godfather. By this I do not mean to allude to his exuberant manner and dandified dress — a taste which occasionally bordered on camp, but which he had in common with other colourful (but heterosexual) characters of the age, from Ken Tynan to Barry Humphries. Having been an exhibitioner at Peterhouse, Cambridge, during the war, Perry went on to be the leading journalistic exhibitionist of his generation.
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Elegant defender of lost causes
Daniel Johnson recalls the colourful life of Sir Peregrine Worsthorne. "Perry Worsthorne was my fairy godfather. By this I do not mean to allude to his exuberant manner and dandified dress — a taste which occasionally bordered on camp, but which he had in common with other colourful...
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