OLDEST BOHEMIAN
London’s oldest Bohemian, who still (he confesses) gets home at 2 and 3 in the morning, celebrated his ninetieth birthday recently by joining n golf club. He is Mr Fred Bishop, sportsman and philanthropist, and oldest member of the Eccentric Club, which made him its guest of honour at a London dinner and presented him with a silver salver. Mr Bishop is a well-known personality on the turf, and some years ago was a owner of racehorses. He claims to have seep 67 Derbys. In his younger days he played for the Middlesex County Cricket Club, and was also a champion sprinter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22628, 20 July 1935, Page 26
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104OLDEST BOHEMIAN Otago Daily Times, Issue 22628, 20 July 1935, Page 26
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