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3 unusual facts about Henry Longhurst


Acton by-election, 1943

Initially there were six candidates but the independent labour and liberal candidates withdrew leaving Walter Padley for the Independent Labour Party (ILP), Edward Godfrey who sought election as an 'English Nationalist' candidate, Independent Dorothy Crisp who wrote for the Sunday Dispatch and the official Conservative candidate Henry Longhurst.

Henry Longhurst

In his memoirs, My Life and Soft Times, (1971), he defended St Cyprians the school he had arrived at in 1915, from critics like Gavin Maxwell, and George Orwell who had attacked it in his polemic Such, Such Were the Joys.

He is best remembered by American audiences for his calls at the 16th hole of the US Masters Tournament including Jack Nicklaus' 40 foot birdie putt that led to victory in 1975.



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