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My father, David Cobbold, was always delighted that his birthday fell on Quatorze Julliet, the French national holiday.\u00a0 Even if he couldn\u2019t be in his second favourite country that day, it made him happy to know that in town squares and villages all over France, couples were dancing to accordions and fireworks were lighting up the sky.\u00a0 So 14th<\/sup> July \u2013 which would have been his 85th<\/sup> birthday \u2013 was the perfect day to celebrate his life with a Memorial picnic on the lawn in front of Knebworth House.<\/p>\n

Tributes were paid by David’s brother Rowland, who recalled their 1940s childhood at Lodge Farm; David\u2019s school and university friend, Lindsay Bury, recalled David\u2019s National Service in the air force in Canada and his colourful Cambridge years, sneaking my mother Chryssie into his college rooms;\u00a0 Stevenage Councillor Stephen Booth remembered David\u2019s candidacy to represent Hertfordshire in the European elections in 1979, when he got the fifth highest Liberal vote in the country (but disappointingly no seat); Old Knebworth Village Green (which David established) resident Rob Smith (pictured) spoke of David\u2019s commitment to local causes and initiatives, in particular the Knebworth Twinning Association, and it was a wonderful surprise to welcome Marie-Genevi\u00e8ve Coutand et Marie-Fran\u00e7oise Bodin from Chatelaillon, who came over especially for the Memorial.<\/p>\n

Alongside the memories, David\u2019s favourite songs were performed by his adopted Ugandan sons, Danny and Harry Matovu, his grandson Edward Lytton Cobbold and his son-in-law Demian Dorelli.\u00a0 Carolyn Allen, who in 1973, aged 19, performed all summer long at Knebworth House in the Edward Bulwer Lytton Centenary theatricals and dinners, performed Noel Gay\u2019s \u201cFor All You Mean To Me\u201d.\u00a0 To round off a magical evening, Mary Hopkin\u2019s daughter, Jessica Lee Morgan (also pictured, in the distance), performed her mother\u2019s 1968 hit \u201cThose Were The Days\u201d:<\/p>\n

Those were the days, my friend<\/em>
\nWe thought they\u2019d never end<\/em>
\nWe\u2019d sing and dance forever and a day\u2026\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Henry Lytton Cobbold
\n@HenryCobboldKH<\/a><\/p>\n

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