John Tothill
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And of course, we've got to talk about Edward Dando, haven't we?
Do we know about Edward Dando?
The celebrated 19th century oyster glutton?
How do I tell you about Edward Dando?
You know how on Wikipedia, if you look something up on Wikipedia, Wikipedia has to purport to be objective, but to a fault.
Wikipedia will be like, Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician.
You think, yeah, get on with it.
But if you look up Edward Dando on Wikipedia, Wikipedia says, Edward Dando was a British thief.
And it's like, okay, cancel my appointments for the afternoon.
So Edward Dando was a kind of minor celebrity in about the 1800s.
completely forgotten about now.
But he was famous in his day for frequenting oyster restaurants, right?