FAREWELL TO THE LOONY LORD The Argus
LORD Tiverton, eccentric millionaire and Official Monster Raving Loony Party devotee, died earlier this month,michael kors outlet store locations, shortly after his good friend and mentor Screaming Lord Sutch.
Loony Lord Tiverton, as he referred to himself, was one of the most colourful characters in Sussex and his home town was determined to give him a send-off to match. John Bedford reports.
HUNDREDS of people lined the streets to say goodbye to a local hero in the only way he would have wanted - in a blaze of colour and a fanfare of music,michael kors store.
Lord Tiverton's flamboyant life ended earlier this month at the age of 72, following a number of health problems.
Yesterday his final wish, that his funeral be a celebration rather than an occasion for sorrow,discount michael kors store, was followed to the letter by his friends and relatives in Hastings.
The short route from Tivers's home above a shop in the historic Old Town of Hastings to the nearby St Clement's Church was packed with those eager to pay their last respects. A jazz band led the
hearse, followed by a lively procession of mourners including members of the Monster Raving Loony Party of which Tivers was appointed chairman shortly before his death. Sadly he never heard theHe said: "This is a very sad day. It's been a hard year for us after the death of Screaming Lord Sutch and now to lose our new chairman is a terrible shame.
"I was trying to phone him on the day he died to tell him he had been voted in as party chairman
but I never got the chance to. I think he would have liked the title though.
The carnival-like procession wound its way to the church for a service led by Rev Iain Morrison.
The imposing place of worship was filled with a congregation which had been banned from wearing black, among them town mayor Godfrey Daniel,
fellow councillors and friends from across the country, including "Madam Cyn", Cynthia Payne.
The hymn Morning Has Broken opened the proceedings and was followed by readings from Tivers's three young grandchildren Charlotte,michael kors jet set crossbody, Polyanna and Bianca Howell. They were accompanied by their father
Barry, Tivers's only son.
Friends recalled how Derek Howell, later to buy the title Lord Tiverton after making his fortune from a chain of health food shops, kept the town smiling with his outrageous pink wardrobe of
clothes and banana-coloured Rolls- Royce,michael kors outlet purse.
Friend Peter Dunn said: "Tivers lived in a flat above a shop in the town with a swimming pool on the first floor. He could have lived in a mansion but he
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