Quentin de la bedoyere biography of christopher

  • Quentin de la Bédoyère died on 1 August, at the age of 88.
  • Quentin Michael Algar, Comte de la Bédoyère was born on 23 November 1934.
  • “Quentin is a very charming and amusing fellow whom I have known for more than 60 years and I can particularly recommend him for post-prandial speaking.” 1.

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    The benefit of doubt

    Our culture has become impoverished by certainty. In our overheated climate of polarised public debate, we give less credence to uncertainty; yet the crises that preoccupy us – including religious extremism – demand that we tolerate increasing amounts of it.

    Doubt and its religious cousin agnosticism, a word rarely heard nowadays, may have fallen out of fashion, but they have much to teach us, despite the disdain of Richard Dawkins, who famously wrote in The God Delusion: “I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden.” He also quotes approvingly Quentin de la Bédoyère, science editor of the Catholic Herald, who in 2006 wrote that the Catholic historian Hugh Ross Williamson respected firm religious belief and certain unbelief, but “reserved his contempt for the wishy-washy boneless mediocrities who flapped around in the middle.”

    To see doubters and freethinkers such as Herbert Spencer, Leslie Stephen, George El

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    Quentin Michael Algar, Comte de la Bédoyère1

    M, #698122, b. 23 November 1934

    Last Edited=10 Jan 2022

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         Quentin Michael Algar, Comtede laBédoyère was born on 23 November 1934.1 He is the son of Michael Anthony Maurice Huchet, Comtede laBédoyère and Mary Catherine AnnThorold. He married IreneGough on 29 July 1956.2

    Children of Quentin Michael Algar, Comte de la Bédoyère and IreneGough

    Citations

    1. [S466] Notices, The Telegraph, London, UK. Hereinafter cited as The Telegraph.
    2. [S203] Announcements, The Times, London, U.K.. Hereinafter cited as The Times.

    Christopher Lewis Silkin1

    M, #698126, b. 12 September 1947

         Christopher LewisSilkin was born on 12 September 1947.1 He is the son of Samuel CharlesSilkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich and Elaine VioletStamp.1,2
         He was educated at Dulwich College, Dulwich, S

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    'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland'

    What is it about Alice in Wonderland? At a point, around seventy years ago, it was imprinted on my mind, and there it remains. And I am not alone. It would seem that in some way it speaks significantly to the child who continues to live within all of us. This is not a generational thing, for three of my (young adult) grandsons turned out to know Alice well – although their most recent meeting was through a film I had not seen. Nor, they assured me, was this a middle class thing: Alice apparently remains in the patrimony of the English mind.

    A universal reaction invites some kind of psychological explanation. And indeed, in the matter of fairy tales, Freud, Jung and Bettelheim can be plausibly, if sometimes gratuitously, invoked. In the end, the grandsons settled for the characteristics of dream sequences, and the need to cope with the uncertainties of early puberty. Interestingly, they put some vikt on the masculine fear of female p