West Meon, Red Lion Hill c.1955
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The local church here contains the graves of two Englishmen - both remembered for entirely different reasons. One is Thomas Lord, founder of the famous cricket ground in London, who lived in the village in his later years. The other is Guy Burgess, a communist agent who defected to Russia in the early 1950s. When Burgess died in 1963, his mother requested that his ashes be returned to Britain for burial. His remains were brought back in an earthenware pot decorated with Russian script and buried in the family plot at West Meon. The service was held after dark to avoid reporters.
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