Cecil Aldbury

In the novel Elephants Can Remember, Cecil Aldbury was the first husband of Mrs Burton-Cox. He had made a lot of money as a manufacturer of buttons and later entered politics where he became the M.P. for Little Stansmere. He died in a car crash four years after they were married. Most of his estate was inherited by his wife although this was not as large as expected because his had not been doing very well in mart year. He also left a large sum of money to a mistress of his.