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[Lord Byng]

Thorpe-Le-Soken
Essex
Thorpe-Le-Soken 27.

Thorpe Hall
Thorpe-Le-Soken
Essex.

June 22nd 1928

Beloved John,

You've won! I have just
received two letters from Stamfordham
and Jix which makes it
impossible for me to refuse without
the thought that I had turned
my country down.

I must take it but with the
most serious misgivings, and

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Stephen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Bigge,_1st_Baron_Stamfordham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joynson-Hicks,_1st_Viscount_Brentford

ubuchan

Lord Byng had just accepted the Commissionership of the Metropolitan Police, encouraged by JB.