In the hall that Jack built, the person who won't accept any praise is Jack John Profumo, the once disgraced cabinet minister, has worked tirelessly for an East London charity for 40 years yet stays resolutely in the background, reports Elizabeth Day

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: December 7, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

KATE BRADLEY, the librarian at Toynbee Hall, is having problems. "I'm trying to compile a definitive list of everything that John Profumo has done here," she says, surrounded by sheaves of paper and a leaning tower of social history books. "It's almost impossible."

She has been hard at work for months, trawling through Toynbee's annual reports for a mention of Mr Profumo's elusive name. It was not until she turned her attention to the photographs that she noticed that all of them were accompanied by a small italicised credit: John Profumo. "Then I realised that was how he kept himself out of ...

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