We have heard Jeremy Hutchinson talk about his life and work as an advocate before. I would happily hear him do so many times again. At 101, he is still able to recall with extraordinary vividness his childhood memories of T.S. Eliot who, oddly, had a cottage at Bosham, while Hutchinson’s mother, Mary, was at West Wittering; the time when the destroyer serving in the war was bombed by the Germans; his defence of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by calling on the evidence of Richard Hoggart, then a Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester; his defence of Kempton Bunton who stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington by climbing through the National Gallery’s lavatory windows after hours; and his mockery of Mary Whitehouse’ s lawyer who brought a case against Michael Bogdanov, the Director of Romans in Britain. He can still dominate a room with humour, ribaldry and intellectual sarcasm.
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Where was this event Charles?
Ever since we heard Jeremy’s wonderful ‘Desert island Disc ‘ we thought this very talk would be a wonderful one for the Academicans Rm?
He is one of our absolute national treasures.
Yes, he is astonishing. Charles
Thank you for mentioning Jeremy Hutchinson, I’ve just listened to the radio interview with him. Absolutely fascinating and refreshing. Thank you
I agree strongly with Susie Allen – Huxley : he is a wonder, and has a really interesting collection of paintings in his house at Lullington. He’d make a delightful, and interesting, Speaker in the Academicians’ Room.