Word: hickleton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl of Halifax, who often talked of turning farmer after he was through being Ambassador to the U.S., was getting closer to the earth. The towering lord of Hickleton Hall in Yorkshire was moved by servant trouble and householder's headache to sell the hulking heap, plus a few of his many lordly acres, to an Anglican sisterhood (Order of the Holy Paraclete). The sisters planned to use it for a school building, and m'lord planned to move into the stable...
Then, about the end of April, he would be going home for good. There, on his farm at Garrowby on the rolling Yorkshire fields, he could talk crops, ride to hounds, drink the homemade beer from nearby Hickleton Hall. He might even drop in from time to time at the House of Lords, "where, you know, one has always the right to make a boring speech...
...Earl of Halifax, towering, impenetrably well-mannered British Ambassador to the U.S., denied that he was being recalled, but knew just what he would do when he was. Said the well-heeled Lord of Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire: "I'm going to become a farmer...
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