©Bryan Phillips Jul 2024 

At last! We can be fairly sure that Terry-Thomas did have a house in Milton Abbas. See our blog. So that is one mystery solved, at least partly, because we do not yet know which property he had, nor when it was bought and sold. One of our correspondents pointed out that Norman Scott, of Jeremy Thorpe infamy, used this house for his honeymoon in May 1969. According to the book ‘A Very English Scandal’, by John Preston page 113, Terry-Thomas loaned it rent free to Norman. Unfortunately the book’s author, a journalist for the Sunday Telegraph, gives no reference, so we cannot confirm this.

Perhaps the newspapers of the time might give us more information.

If you are interested to learn more about the tragic life story of Terry-Thomas see Yahoo! Movies.

We are still looking for confirmation that Diana Dors had a place here.