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Smart, John

John Smart lives in an old pub in Norfolk. He has written on John Hayward, T. S. Eliot and Sir John Squire, and on Modernism and twentieth-century drama.

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20210901100448 Ernest Shepard illustration, John Smart on John Squire, Cheddar Gorge, SF Issue 71

Dreaming of Cheese

John Smart on John Squire (ed.), Cheddar Gorge

When I was writing a biography of John Hayward, T. S. Eliot’s flat-sharer and friend for many years, I was intrigued to come across a letter from Eliot to The Times. It was a reply to a certain Sir John Squire who wanted to erect a statue to the creator of Stilton cheese. Who was Squire and why was this distinguished man of letters bothered about cheese? It was time to look at Squire’s original letter in the British Library. 

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