Benedict Le Vay

Benedict le Vay, a former resident of Oxford's Old Marston, is a national newspaper sub-editor who wrote his first book, Eccentric Britain , more or less by accident after collecting oddities about his home country. He describes himself as frankly rather ordinary and is hard-pressed to think of anything eccentric to say about himself. 'At a push, I'd say, yes, I'm Honorary Secretary of the Friends of the A272, and I've asked for my ashes to be blasted from the chimney of my favourite steam...See more

Benedict le Vay, a former resident of Oxford's Old Marston, is a national newspaper sub-editor who wrote his first book, Eccentric Britain , more or less by accident after collecting oddities about his home country. He describes himself as frankly rather ordinary and is hard-pressed to think of anything eccentric to say about himself. 'At a push, I'd say, yes, I'm Honorary Secretary of the Friends of the A272, and I've asked for my ashes to be blasted from the chimney of my favourite steam locomotive at my funeral. Hasn't everybody?' See less