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Robert Vernon Heber-Percy (5 November 1911 – 29 October 1987), known for much of his life as "the Mad Boy", was "an English eccentric in the grand tradition". [1] Early life.
His name was Robert Heber-Percy and — despite some unnerving sideways skips — the “mad boy” was still at Faringdon in 1950 when Berners, after murmuring apologies for having wasted the time...
Robert Vernon Heber-Percy the squire of Faringdon, (formerly Berkshire) who has died aged 75, was an English eccentric in the grand tradition. Devoted to books, paintings and the beautification of his estate, he built follies, rode to hounds with his reins held at the buckle on the tips of his fingers, and was the proprietor of an undertakers ...
It was the boyhood home of Robert Heber-Percy, known as "the Mad Boy" and "an English eccentric in the grand tradition". [3] In the 20th century the hall was used as a convalescent hospital during the world wars, and in World War II there was an airfield in the grounds for the storage and dispersal of aircraft from Ternhill and RAF ...
Sofka Zinovieff tells the story of Berners as he composes and carouses with her grandfather, Robert Heber-Percy, in fashionable society between the wars. Dinah Birch. Fri 10 Oct 2014 05.30...
Chloe, Phyllis, Jeanne Duval, Albertine, Gilberte, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Robert Heber-Percy) In the early 1930s Robert was taken up by Lord Berners as his friend and companion, both in his house in the Forum at Rome and at Faringdon, where he helped manage the estate. The tower that Lord Berners built there (the last notable Folly erected ...
A small 18th century villa inherited in 1918 by the eccentric writer and musician Lord Berners (1883 – 1950). Berners lived openly with his lover Robert Heber-Percy (1911- 1987) at Faringdon.<br /><br />Berners was the model for Nancy Mitford's gloriously camp Lord Merlinford in 'The Pursuit of Love' and 'Love in a Cold Climate.'
