Miles Pattenden revisits the legacy of Mgr Alfred Gilbey, a quarter of a century after his death.
March 26 this year marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Alfred Newman Gilbey (1901–98), erstwhile Catholic chaplain at Cambridge University and, later, the saintliest resident of the Travellers Club on London’s Pall Mall. Many Herald readers will remember Gilbey as a dashing or eccentric Cambridge fixture (recollections vary according to taste). He was probably the last cleric for whom a close-fitting frock coat and wide-brimmed priest’s hat were wardrobe essentials.
