Famous Historical Pipe Smokers
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More of a cigar guy, but G.K. Chesterton!
Looks to taper from bit to full section near shank, feels more Danish to me. Could just be the picture though…
He smoked Field and Stream Walnut tobacco and others and had a wide variety of pipes.
https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/gerald-ford-the-pipe-smoking-president
This is also interesting ... he jokes his pipe collection is worth a 1/4 million ... ???
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Gerald Ford sucking back that sweet tobacco at a desk in the study of the president of the University of Alabama, April 13, 1978. Ford was a big-time pipe smoker, and even had a pipe in his hand for…
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And with all the Sherlock Holmes-y fixations many of yall have, I’m glad to see the character’s creator liked my kinda pipe…
Clement Atlee, Deputy Prime Minister under Winston Churchill during WW2, and chief architect of Britain's postwar reconstruction as Prime Minister 1945-51. He smoked WD & HO Wills' Cut Golden Bar.
Professor J R R Tolkien, co-founder of the Inklings and creator of Middle Earth. He smoked Capstan Medium Navy Cut. And, of course, Longbottom Leaf, Southern Star, and Old Toby.
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Rudyard Kipling, one of the greatest storytellers and poets of the 20th century. He smoked Goodwin's Old Judge in a Meerschaum.
Something kept calling me back to this picture of Tolkien. I finally figured out that it was unlike most of the people pictured, he was not posing for this shot and as a result we get a good idea as to how he held his pipe, at least some of the time.
Notice that not only is he a clencher but he clenches far back in his jaw to the point that the pipe looks to be held almost perpendicular to the direction of his head. I guess it makes good sense for a writer who spends much time looking down at his writings or those of others. Keeps pipe well out of the way.
Fr. Emil Kapaun, Catholic priest with his pipe that got the mouthpiece shot off in Korea.
Died in 1951 in prison camp. Talk about a great guy!!
Died in 1951 in prison camp. Talk about a great guy!!
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Servant of God Fr. Emil Kapuan ! The cause for sainthood has begin ...
Cause for Sainthood | Fr. Kapaun - https://frkapaun.org/cause/
"The Miracle of Father Kapuan" is a very good book BTW
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc- Historian, Writer, Poet, Soldier, Sailor and Catholic! Infamous for his writings.
I have two pipes very similar to his !
I'd be interested in seeing those! I would like to start collecting pipes that famous pipe smokers have/had.I have two pipes very similar to his !
Alfred Lord Ternnyson, British Poet Laureate (1809-1892), a dedicated pipe smoker and, though he was a much-photographed man for his time, I haven't been able to find a photo of him actually with one of his pipes. He is known to have had a rack of 14 pipes (including a Powhatan Native American pipe sent him from the USA, which he also smoked), using them in a fortnightly rotation. Photos of his pipes are out there on the web, but all those I've found are either copyrighted or in non-shareable .webp format - but they include a couple of clays, a straight Meerschaum egg and a bent Meer egg with an amber stem, the shank twice mended with white metal collars, clearly much smoked and loved. What he enjoyed in his pipe, who knows? Perhaps there's an archive of his personal papers somewhere, like his former home at Farringford Manor on the Isle of Wight, which includes detailed bills from his tobacconist...
A healthy dose of medical (doctor) pipe smokers, et al.--
Famous Pipe Smokers - https://josephcrusejohnson.blogspot.com/
Famous Pipe Smokers - https://josephcrusejohnson.blogspot.com/