Clouds of Witness

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WIMSEY, Peter Death Bredon, D.S.O.; born 1890, snd son of Mortimer Gerald Bredon Wimsey, 15th Duke of Denver, and of Honoria Lucasta, daughter of Francis Delagardie of Bellingham Manor, Hants.

Educated: Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford (ist class honours, Sch. of Mod. Hist. 1912); served with H.M. Forces 1914/18 (Major, Rifle Brigade).

Author of: "Notes on the Collecting of Incunabula," "The Murderer's Vade-Mecum," etc.

Recreations: Criminology; bibliophily; music; cricket.

Clubs: Marlborough; Egotist's.

Residences: [Garbled] Piccadilly, W.; Bredon Hall, Duke's Denver, Norfolk.

Arms: Sable, 3 mice courant, argent; crest, a domestic cat couched as to spring, proper; motto: As my Whimsy takes me.

This re-issue of Clouds of Witness (which has received some corrections and amendments from Miss Sayers) has for a Preface this short biography of Lord Peter Wimsey, brought up to date in 1935 and communicated by his uncle Paul Austin Delagardie.

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