Bird call… Puffins, a naked ballerina and an artist named Hieronymus – John Vincent links them all to a leading London art show.
Everyone loves the dear old puffin. With its white face and bright orange triangular bill, it looks a like a cross between a parrot and a penguin but is actually related to the auk family. I first encountered the Atlantic puffin during a helicopter trip to the Bristol Channel island of Lundy in the 1980s, admiring from the shoreline the charismatic seabirds with other visitors to the island, named after the Old Norse word for puffin, lundi.
A career soldier, he married Charlotte Primrose, daughter of the Earl of Roseberry, and had five children. When he died, Charlotte married again, at the age of 80...to a man 50 years her junior. Kenneth and Charlotte's heir was the charitable Henry Howard, who would go on to have a remarkable influence on Rotherham and its development. I also elicited this snippet about Henry: 'In 1843, he was here to watch Mr Brown's balloon launch in the town centre.
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