‘WALTER REFUSED TO DOFF HIS CAP’
Aug 24, 2021
2 minutes
HELEN PARKERDRABBLE is a genealogist, author and former counsellor living in Swindon, Wiltshire
Helen Parker-Drabble was a child when she was first told of her grandfather’s refusal to doff his cap to the Duke of Bedford’s estate manager. “Walter Parker grew up in the village of Thorney in Cambridgeshire, where the estate manager was a very important man,” Helen explains. “Why did
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