IDLE LIFE PALLED
Earl Working For Council (N.Z. Press Assn.— Copyright) LONDON. June 7. The Earl of Buckinghamshire mopped his brow yesterday and began pushing a hand-mower along another stretch of a school lawn, the “Daily Mirror" reports. "Lord Vic” was back at work as a £lO-a-week council gardener at Southend, Essex Last January, when he became an earl instead of Mr Vere Frederick Cecil HobartHampden. he resigned from his council job and said he was going into retirement.
After 12 years as a gardener, 62-year-old “Lord Vic” couldn't stand the idle life, the “Daily Mirror” said. “I felt I was wasting away my life so I decided to come back to work.” he said as he mowed the lawns of Fairfax High School, West-cliff-on-Sea, yesterday. The earl, wearing old flannels and an open-neck shirt, added: “I had five months off work and I was getting annoyed with everyone because I was idle. I wish I had never inherited the earldom. ’
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30153, 10 June 1963, Page 14
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