On the day that the Tour de France, arguably the world’s most iconic cycling race, prepares for its Grand Départ, we thought that it would be a good time to share this press-cutting from the Library and Archives.
It shows Lord William Cecil, Bishop of Exeter 1916-1936, who was known as the “Cycling Bishop”. The article records his resolution, on his 72nd birthday, to give up cycling and instead to take an open-topped car (roof down at all times!)