Archibald Ormsby-Gore was the teddy bear of which author?
Archibald Ormsby-Gore Archibald Ormsby-Gore Archibald Ormsby-Gore, better known as Archie, was the teddy-bear of English poet laureate John Betjeman. Together with a toy elephant known as Jumbo, he was a lifelong companion of Betjeman's. Betjeman brought his bear with him when he went up to university at Oxford in the 1920s, and as a result Archie became the model for Aloysius, Sebastian Flyte's bear in Evelyn Waugh's novel "Brideshead Revisited". In the 1940s, Betjeman also wrote and illustrated a story for his children, entitled "Archie and the Strict Baptists", in which the bear's sojourns at the family's successive homes in Uffington and
Alice Ormsby-Gore of it as mutual. My extreme youth made any rational analysis of the situation impossible." Clapton broke the engagement and ended their relationship for good after recovering from his heroin addiction with the help of Ormsby Gore's family. In 1974, aged 22, Ormsby Gore found her elder brother, Julian Ormsby Gore (33), dead in his apartment from gunshot wounds, an apparent suicide. Ormsby Gore's father (William) David Ormsby Gore died as the result of a car accident in 1985. He was succeeded by Francis Ormsby Gore, 6th Baron Harlech. Alice Ormsby Gore died in poverty in a bedsit in Bournemouth,