Who owned a teddy bear called Archibald Ormsby-Gore?
Archibald Ormsby-Gore Betjeman's arms when he died in 1984. 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
Alice Ormsby-Gore Dorset, having taken six times the fatal dose of heroin. The syringe was still in her arm. "The Independent" (London) reported on 21 April 1995, the day before her 43rd birthday: Lord Harlech's sister, Alice Ormsby Gore, 42, who was once engaged to the rock guitarist Eric Clapton, died after taking a drug overdose at her flat, an inquest in Bournemouth, Dorset, heard. Alice Ormsby-Gore Alice Magdalen Sarah Ormsby Gore (22 April 1952 – c. 17 April 1995) was a British socialite. She was the youngest daughter of William David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech and his first wife Sylvia Thomas.