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By the end of his life Henry Cole was recognised as a national institution, "Old King Cole", though has was also treated with caution as a "playful monster". He was a lifelong Civil Servant, in a period when Civil Servants could be buccaneering reformers rather than impassive mandarins. Describedas "a clever agitator, …
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