Departures of note

Sir Richard Paget, 2nd Baronet, encouraged his daughter Pamela Paget (later Lady Glenconner) to throw herself backwards from the open platform of a London bus on Park Lane to demonstrate his theory about air currents; she broke her arm, as reported by her nephew Alexander Chancellor in his Long Life column in The Spectator.

Sir Richard Paget also filled his daughters' ears with treacle to simulate deafness while testing his sign‑language system, according to Lady Glenconner's obituary in The Telegraph.