wiki-illiam #106: q9

[dubdobdee]

Who or what?
i: is Hazel's cousin?
ii: was crowned in Dublin Cathedral?
iii: eponymous water bird has long been bedded down?
iv: gained the GC for heroism on the Ely-Newmarket line?
v: died in legal captivity of coronary thrombosis on 16 November, 1952?
vi: wrote a risqué novel, which saw him tried but acquitted for irreligion and immorality?
vii: carried on with George, regardless of Caroline, and later Frances?
viii: put his name to a Top Secret Management Handbook?
ix: tragically completed his fourth, but not his eighth?
x: created William and Maudie?

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

iii) what birds' feathers are used in bedding? Goose, eider...any others?

ix) sounds like it might refer to symphonies.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

...Schubert? I know his last was famously unfinished, don't know what number it was though.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

my instinct is, if symphony, not schubert -- whose "unfinished" is a bit TOO well known!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Reading up on the relevant Schubert symphonies seems to indicate that for once "too easy" wasn't an issue!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

iii: it's eider, isn't it -- eider down = eiderdown, hence eponymous

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

"Eponymous" made me think of Steller's Eider -- I had the misconception that this was an extinct species like Steller's Seacow, and hence "bedded down", but it seems to be still quite alive.

[amuchmoreexotic.livejournal.com]

iii) is presumably eider, because it is eponymous in the sense that the bedding is named after the bird.