Lord Berners

Here lies Lord Berners/One of life''s learners,Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored.So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky), writer, painter, aesthete and eccentric, indeed in Mark Amory''s words ''The Last Eccentric'', famously dyeing the pigeons at his house, Faringdon, in vib...