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Photograph of popular head Mrs Coleman & pupils of Hook School, 1958/9. Interviewed by Lord Bolingbroke for the job, she was at the school for 20 years. Search Hook School.

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Photograph of Vernon St.John, 6th Viscount Bolingbroke, c1960's

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A rare snapshot of Vernon St.John, 6th Viscount Bolingbroke (d1974) outside his home at Crow Hill, Ringwood in Hampshire.

Vernon lived at Crow Hill with his companion Miss Catherine McLean, pursuing his life long interest in natural history and butterfly collecting in particular.