Author Of Telegram

[jetendy]

Who was the famous person who sent a telegram saying ' Am at Paddington Station. Where should I be?'

[jno]

I tried googling this. Everyone seems to have said it, though they give different places. GK Chesterton's name comes up a lot, but he's at a variety of places. Market Harborough seems to be the most common suspect.

[factor-fiction]

Wasn't Paddington Bear was it?

[TheWinner]

I thought that too factor fiction and googled it earlier this afternoon, but I don't think it's correct.

[TheWinner]

this is what I found and it makes no reference to a telegram.
http://www.paddingtonbear.com/paddingtonsbiography.html
we were both thinking alike here I think f.f.

[Tilly2]

No, not Paddington. He just wore a label saying 'From darkest Peru'. It might have been the bear with very little brain though.

[TheWinner]

Tilly2, I thought Paddington wore a label saying "please look after this bear" ???

[TheWinner]

I wonder if it was Sherlock Holmes?
Is it fact or fiction?

[factor-fiction]

^Are you asking me?

[TheWinner]

LOL ff.

[jetendy]

Thanks to all of you. I guess it's still a mystery

[atalanta]

I think it was a Bishop.

[jim360]

Where did you first hear of it? It sounds vaguely familiar, but this is the only place that I've found it!

[atalanta]

I can't give you a "Paddington" quote, but this is the sort of thing I had in mind :
The absent-minded bishop, Lord William Cecil, allegedly telegraphed to his wife ‘Am in Ilfracombe. Why?’

[Grandma_Yiddo]

According to my Penguin Dictionary of Quotations it was G.K. Chesterton. He said to his wife in a telegram "Am in Market Harborough. Where ought I to be?"

[Peter Pedant]

another Cecil (well Gascoyne Cecil actually) Lord Edward Cecil wrote the Leisure of an Egyptian Official which is worth a read.

He is the one when the Boer war Broke out, they couldnt pay the army in Egypt so he wrote a personal cheque for a million pounds on either Barings or Rothschilds Bank in Cairo. When he was asked by the Bank mgr why he should honour the cheque - he replied because my father is prime minister. I think - anyway it makes a good story

[ludwig]

Was it the driver of the 4.15 from Stoke-on-Trent to Exeter?