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Lord Lucan playing bridge

Lucky Lord Lucan was the 7th Earl of Lucan, great-great-grandson of the man who’d ordered the calamitous Charge of the Light Brigade – and a man whose name was to become the stuff of legend. When Lord Lucan first walked through the grand portals of the Clermont Club in the 1960s, it is probable that John Aspinall merely saw him as just another chinless toff who was only fit to be relieved of his fortune. Lucan had in his time had a fair few successes at the tables, and was an expert at backgammon as well as bridge. But no matter how successful he’d been in the past, he was never going to be a match for the crooks in the Clermont. They very nearly bankrupted him