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 * ''" Shirley and Eddie Clarkson ran a business selling tea cosies. They signed up their son, Jeremy, in advance for a number of public schools with no idea how they were going to pay for them, until at the last moment, when he was 13, they made two Paddington bears for each of their children, which proved so popular that they started selling them through the business with sufficient success to be able to pay the fees for him to attend Repton School.

The realised that they probably couldn't name him after the television character so they marketed it as the Earl of Buewallis named after the village they lived in. Soon after they started building a retail network, Michael Bond, the author of the Paddington Bear stories noticed one of their bears in a shop in Haslemere where he lived and instructed his solicitors to take action. They phoned Shirley Clarkson, asking if she made Paddington Bears, which in a moment of weakness she admitted and they instructed her to stop. Eddie sought to negotiate a licencing contract, went for a meeting with Bond at his solicitors, met him in a lift going up there was no question of Clarkson not having a deal a mutual likening and they came to mutual agreement.

Jeremy remembers the house being turned into a factory - the dining room became the stuffing room, the kitchen the sewing up room, the bedroom the cutting room, his and his sisters bedrooms store rooms. "''



Elizabeth, Lady Devonport 



Precision Talent

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BBC DNA h2g2 - unreliable source (self published)

Merryn Somerset Webb

Roman candle

Scoot.com

Living in the Past (TV series)

Claire Barratt

Tania Harcourt-Cooze

Osgodby, Lincolnshire

Silkin Test

20th Century Society

Michaela Furney

Great Somerford

Maxwell Knight