Retirees to Budleigh from British India by Roger Lendon
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Retirees to Budleigh from British India has recently been published by inveterate researcher Roger Lendon. The 322 page compendium of 106 men and women and their families of the British Raj who retired to live in Budleigh Salterton makes fascinating reading. Most of the retirees had served in either the British Army in India or the Indian Civil Service. Roger sets the scene in the introduction by quoting British diplomat Sir Leslie Glass (1911-1988) who recalled spending a holiday in Budleigh when his father came home on furlough from India; “there were so many retired officials from India that different areas were popularly known by the names of the respective provinces whence their cluster of pensioners had come. One would go to Punjab for tea or play tennis in Madras. Many a floor had a tiger or leopard-skin rug and many a wall had the horns and heads of the antelope and deer which were so plentiful in our fathers’ day.”
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