Fairfax Luxmoore
Fuff with a bust of his great-grandfather, HE Luxmoore, at Luxmoore;s Garden at Eton . HE was a noted housemaster at Eton in the 1800s Fairfax - or Fuff as he is universally known - was born on 17th July 1940 to Annette Luxmoore (nee Pugh, later Lawford) and Wing-Commander Arthur Luxmoore . Arthur crashed and died in Belgium in 1941. Annette married Patrick Lawford in 1944 and Herry (1945) and Piers (1947) became his half-brothers. Fuff went to St Ronan's , where he was a fine athlete, then to Charterhouse where he excelled at hockey, and thereafter to Cirencester , where he had an energetic social life. In 1961, Fuff and two friends drove a Jaguar from England all the way to India via Iran and Afghanistan. They sold it in India and Fuff continued on to Australia by ship, arriving in Perth. From there he rode a motorbike all the way across the Nullarbor Plain to the east coast, finally ending up in New Zealand. In 1963 Fuff married Belinda Roberts from Thirsk,...