13 JULY 1996, Page 25

Dotty. broker

Sir: Nigel Johnson-Hill (Letters, 6 July) says he has calculated Dot Wordsworth's age at /5 exactly' and wishes her a happy birthday.

He arrives at this conclusion by noting that her daughter is called Veronica, 'a name in vogue in the mid-1940s when Dot was presumably at the then favourite child- bearing age of 25'.

Have you ever seen woollier evidence more precisely analysed? Mr Johnson-Hill used to be a partner in a leading firm of stockbrokers. Is this how city analysts do their sums? Or is it.a bluff concealing inside information?

James Hughes-Onslow

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