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On this day, 24 February 1958

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Foundation of the Victorian Society

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The society was founded at 18 Stafford Terrace, Kensington, the family home of Lady Ann Rosse. According to Dr William Filmer-Sankey, the decision to found the society was ‘No doubt encouraged by the cocktails of legendary strength mixed by [Lady Rosse’s] butler’. John Betjeman became the first secretary.

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