Had it not been for the genius of Philip Jebb, London’s most famous 20th-century nightclub, Annabel’s, originally at 44 Berkeley Square, might never have existed. Philip was part of a remarkable British Catholic dynasty: grandson of Hilaire Belloc, brother of the late Father Philip Jebb, headmaster of Downside School and also brother of Julian Jebb, the Sixties and Seventies BBC cultural figure, famous for interviews with Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen and John Betjeman. His sister, Marianne, was a nun.
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Architecture’s Charles Ryder
had it not been for the genius of philip jebb, london’s most famous 20th-century nightclub, annabel’s, originally at 44 berkeley square, mig...
William Cash
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