Word: harpenden
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Wilfred Gurney Fordham was born in London and has spent the greater part of his life in the capital. He was educated at St. George's School, Harpenden, one of the leading co-educational schools in the country, where he was school captain and a prominent footballer. He thence proceeded to Magdalene College, Cambridge, coming into residence in 1922, and taking his degree in June, 1926. For three years of this time at Magdalene, Mr. Fordham came under the Mastership of Dr. A.C. Benson, the popular essayist and novel-writer, whose generosity and personal charm were so highly valued...
Died. Major Count Ferdinand Esterhazy, alias Comte de Voilement, at Harpenden, England. His death revives memories of the famous Dreyfus case (1894-1906) in France; for it was Esterhazy who confessed to his part in preparing false evidence against the then Captain Alfred Dreyfus. He subsequently fled to England where he has lived ever since in a state of penury. He was referred to once by one of his followers as "that gladly forgotten Esterhazy, the wolf," so odious was his name in France...
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