Lord Montagu RIP

Harry Palmr

The man who made National Motor Museum at Beaulieu has died. I lived at the other end of Rollestone Road in Holbury as a child so went to the museum a few times back then. I'm sure quite a few here have made the pilgrimage down the years.

Arthur Daley

Yes good memories of going to beaulieu in the 80s. Well worth a trip I must get back some time. I'd say he must have been a fair age now and had a good innings.

kev1.3s

Rip

Arthur Daley

I see he was 88 and had quite a colourful past to say the least.

He inherited the estate at the age of 2 and by the time he was of an age to manage it he couldn't afford to run a big house like that on his cash inheritance of 1,500 per annum in 1952. So building a motor museum there and getting visitors in was a necessity and not just a great passion for the cars.

unkel

And his father commissioned the famous Rolls-Royce mascot "Spirit of Ecstasy" modelled on his mistress who unfortunately was killed a few years later (when she accompanied him on a trip to India) by a U-boat in WW1. That was 100 years ago.