LORD NOEL-BUXTON
who found fame in tracing shallow paths across great rivers
Lord Noel-Buxton was a peer who forded rivers with no fear and fashioned chapter ends as though doing it on the radio. Water-writ fame! His Humber ford, not on Brough Haven's tourist board, yet inspires track of his designs by bridge and in East Anglia Bylines.
This imitation of Hilaire Belloc's cautionary tales (specifically the ones about Lord Lundy and in the 1911 book More peers) was written in connection with an East Anglia bylines article. For EAB's series on the twelve days of Christmas and their gifts, I covered the ten lords a-leaping, and revisited the story of Rufus Alexander Buxton, 2nd Baron Noel-Buxton of Aylsham (1917-1980): his life in general, this time, not just how he forded the Humber in 1953. That exploit was followed, from the safety of a bridge, by Clare and me seventy years later. Click on the links for explanations of how Brough Haven's tourist board and doing it on the radio come into it at all.
And of course I reiterate the 2023 plug for the Bylines network of publications.
