Goodnight, Henry

So farewell then, Sir Clement Freud, who has died aged 84.

I must admit to being surprised that he wasn't older! The first time I remember Clement was advertising dog food on telly with his pooch, Henry, when I was a kid. It was memorable largely because the two looked so much alike. He looks young (as well he might, the ads being 40-odd years old), in my memory he looked rather older, but then I was only a kid:


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Broadcaster, columnist, gourmand and former Liberal MP, Sir Clement Freud was born ion Berlin in April 1924, the grandson of Sigmund and younger brother of Lucien. His granddaughter is 'TV personality' Emma. During his time as a Member of Parliament, he visited China with a delegation of other MPs, including Winston S. Churchill, a grandson of the wartime leader of the same name. When Churchill was given the best room in the hotel, on account of his lineage, Freud (in a reference to his own famous forebear) declared it was the first time in his life that he had been "out-grandfathered"

The BBC obituary is here.


1924-2009

Freud was a horse racing enthusiast, and was a columnist for the Racing Post newspaper. In his column in the paper, issue of 23 August 2006, he wrote about his election to Parliament in a by-election: "Politically, I was an anti-Conservative unable to join a Labour party hell-bent on nationalising everything that moved, so when a by-election occurred in East Anglia, where I lived and live, I stood as a Liberal and was fortunate in getting in. Ladbrokes quoted me at 33-1 in this three-horse contest, so Ladbrokes paid for me to have rather more secretarial and research staff than other MPs, which helped to keep me in for five parliaments."

Goodnight, Henry

So farewell then, Sir Clement Freud, who has died aged 84.

I must admit to being surprised that he wasn't older! The first time I remember Clement was advertising dog food on telly with his pooch, Henry, when I was a kid. It was memorable largely because the two looked so much alike. He looks young (as well he might, the ads being 40-odd years old), in my memory he looked rather older, but then I was only a kid:


.

Broadcaster, columnist, gourmand and former Liberal MP, Sir Clement Freud was born ion Berlin in April 1924, the grandson of Sigmund and younger brother of Lucien. His granddaughter is 'TV personality' Emma. During his time as a Member of Parliament, he visited China with a delegation of other MPs, including Winston S. Churchill, a grandson of the wartime leader of the same name. When Churchill was given the best room in the hotel, on account of his lineage, Freud (in a reference to his own famous forebear) declared it was the first time in his life that he had been "out-grandfathered"

The BBC obituary is here.


1924-2009

Freud was a horse racing enthusiast, and was a columnist for the Racing Post newspaper. In his column in the paper, issue of 23 August 2006, he wrote about his election to Parliament in a by-election: "Politically, I was an anti-Conservative unable to join a Labour party hell-bent on nationalising everything that moved, so when a by-election occurred in East Anglia, where I lived and live, I stood as a Liberal and was fortunate in getting in. Ladbrokes quoted me at 33-1 in this three-horse contest, so Ladbrokes paid for me to have rather more secretarial and research staff than other MPs, which helped to keep me in for five parliaments."