A do-gooder to himself too John Adamson on the contradictory character of Lord Longford, Catholic, porn campaigner, friend of murderers, and socialist

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: July 6, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Outcasts' Outcast: A Biography of Lord Longford

by Peter Stanford

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WHATEVER else may be said of Lord Longford - onetime Labour Cabinet minister, Catholic sage, prison reformer, anti-pornography campaigner, friend of Myra Hindley - personal vanity as to his appearance was never a besetting sin.

On my last meeting with him - when, shortly before his death in 2001, we took the same train from King's Cross to Cambridge - the godly earl appeared a gloriously shambolic figure: gravy-stained Oxfam suit; tie festooned with relics ...

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