INDEX OF PERSONS REFERRED TO
- Adgate, Sir Mark, his curious watch, 133
- Albert, H.R.H. Prince (afterwards King Albert I), 202
- Amboise, Mademoiselle, 21
- “Antoinette,” her prescription, 80
- Archdale, Leonard, the actor, 95
- Banks, Wynefryde, 30, 118
- Bates, Sir Arthur, his intrepid candidature, 151
- Billericay, Lord, 129, 147, 177, 184, 187, 207
- Birkenhead, Bishop of, amusing anecdote told by, 208
- Bisset, Mrs., on War-aims, 238
- Blisworth, Lady, 1, 10, 22, 25, 43, 73, 183
- Blisworth, Lord, 1, 4, 11, 14, 16, 25, 81, 82
- Bowles, Dr., 74
- Brede, Marquis of, 166–168, 211
- Breder, Dr., on raw tomatoes, 137
- St. Briavel’s, Countess of, 129
- de Brignard, Comtesse, see Tarporley.
- Burstall, the “Futurist” artist, 173, 202
- Bythorpe, Lord, his versatility, 41
- Cheadle, Lord, his speech at Oxford, 41
- Combe, Lady, 88–92, 112–114, 126, 180
- Combe, Sir Richard, 88, 127
- Crawshall, “Dick,” rides a bicycle, 131
- Cubitt’s house at Eton, 183
- Dives, Canon, 45–47, 50, 51, 119–122, 188, 212, 213–221, 225
- Dolman, Dr., chest specialist, 158
- Drake, Mrs., see Lushcombe.
- Druce, Mr., Superintendent of the Berthellot Institute, 77–79
- Drysdale, Lady Jacynth, her coloured teeth, 131
- Drywater, Professor, of Aberdeen, on travelling expenses, 162
- Ducie, John, his reckless feats, 134
- Engelberg, Baroness, see Sholto.
- Engelstein, Lady, 131, 188
- Farnham, the Hon. Mrs., 151
- Fearon, Hon. Algernon, his unusual accomplishment, 130
- Feilding, Dr., of Christ Church, a popular lecturer, 36
- ffynes, Sir Hugh, 211
- Fitzgerald, the actor, 95
- von Fleissing, Landgrab, on religion, 60
- Forres, Lady Anne, 38
- Fothergill, Professor, the younger, 194
- Frodsham’s house at Eton, 183
- Garvice, Miss, on the Absolution, 44
- Geraghty, Daniel, Prime Minister of Ireland, 194
- Goodge, Dame Beatrice, 205
- Grant, the late Mrs., 133
- Griggs, Holbeach, 138–142
- Grosheim, Lady Georgina, 131, 139, 140, 187
- Gunter, Sir Hubert, 145, 165, 166
- Hammond, George, the historian, 146, 207
- Harkness, Francis, 128, 158, 177, 179, 190, 191, 211
- Harkness, Gervase, 128, 157, 158, 177, 185, 190, 211
- Harkness, Wilson, see Porstock, Lord.
- Hawkesley, Tulip, 30
- Hazelbright, Sir Philip, 157
- Henricourt, the novelist, 196–197
- Hodges, James, 122–124, 127, 176
- Hodgkins, Trevor, his breakfast at the Zoo, 135
- Holbrook, the actor, 95
- Holly, Lady Frances, does “knitting”, 131
- Holroyd, The Right Hon. James, 155–157, 162, 166, 168–170, 210, 211
- Hopedale, Viscount, 145, 147, 150, 152, 163, 188
- Hopgood, Frank (afterwards White-Elephant-at-Arms), 106, 130
- Hopgood, Irene, an exacting guest, 130
- Hopkins, see Engelberg.
- Hopps, Adèle, and her hair, 132
- Hoskyns, of B.N.C., the geographer, 35, 42, 43, 119
- Humbledon, Lady, 139
- Krausenberg, Dr., his theory of education, 180
- Labadie, 95
- Leek, Sapphire: Countess of, 137, 195
- Lennox, the artist, 186, 202
- Lestrange, General, 14
- Lieberts, “Tommy”, 129, 153, 188
- Linklater, Sybil, Lady, her revolving ball-room, 136
- Linthorpe, Miss, 12, 13, 43, 51, 65, 66–71, 122, 123, 191, 224
- Linthorpe, see also Blisworth, Lady.
- Lock, “Archie”, 132, 135, 140, 142, 175, 177, 187, 207
- Lushcombe, Lady, see Stockdale.
- Macdonald, “Fatty”, 30
- McGillivray, the comic artist, 208
- McGinnis, His Grace Duke, 100
- McKechnie, Mrs., her “Reminiscences Edwardian and Albertian”, 148, 149
- Mainwaring, the poet, 189
- Margate, Esther, her acute feminism, 206–207
- Marrett, Lady, 204
- Massachussets, Lady, 109, 110
- Merewether, Dame Louise, her recklessness and caution, 135, 137
- Mersham, Miss, numismatics mistress, runs away, 29
- Michigan, Duke of, 131
- Millthorpe, Viscount, 150
- Montrose, Miss, Head Mistress, 18–20, 165
- Murchison, General, 102
- van Murphy, Mr. and Mrs., 104–105
- Myslok, the novelist, 63
- Nuneaton, Angela Lady, 135, 138, 139
- O’Leary, the actor, 95
- O’Leary, the K.C., 192–193
- O’Shaugnessy, President (U.S.A.), 9
- Palliser, Capt. Jane, 30
- Partridge, Mrs. Justice, 193
- Perse, Lord, 169
- Peterson, the philanthropist, 229
- Philpotts, Dame Horatia, 154–155
- Pirbright, Edgar, the poet, 185, 199
- Polebridge, Lady, 78, 93, 116–118, 126, 175, 186, 198, 237
- Poltwhistle, Lord Chief Justice, 192
- Porstock, Wilson Lord, 100, 109–111, 124–127, 142, 170, 189
- Poughkeepsie, Lord and Lady, 103–105
- Pulbrooke, Countess of (in her own right), 167, 174, 187
- Rivers, Mrs., on chewing, 107
- Ropes, Charles, 99, 147, 148
- Rowlands, Rev. Agape, 86, 87, 89–92, 108, 109, 114–116, 124, 127, 158, 176
- Rowlands, Rev. Didymus, 85, 87, 90, 91, 213
- Rymer, Sir Alexander, 74
- Sanderson, the Præteritist portrait-painter, 201–205
- Sandham, Lord, wears “starched” collars, 133
- Sandridge, Dr., Head-Master of Eton, 185
- Savage, Juliet, 30, 31, 39, 41, 52, 77, 79, 86, 118, 119, 122, 125, 144, 172, 177, 187, 188, 206, 225
- Schultz, Herr, the pædagogist, 178–180
- Shanks, Dr., 73
- Sholto, Mrs., see Drake.
- Sitwell, Dame Mary, the scalp specialist, 132
- Smith, H.E., Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster, 189, 209, 221, 222
- Sonnenschein, Miss, 77
- Spink, Mrs., authoress of Eugenics for Lower Forms, 137
- Stockdale, Lady, see de Brignard.
- Tarporley, Mrs., see Travers-Grant, Lady.
- Tonks, Arthur, Regius Professor of Statistics, 163
- Toogood, Ena, 37
- Townshend’s house at Eton, 183
- Travers, Eustace, his versatility, 41
- Travers-Grant, Lady, see Polebridge.
- Trecastle, Lady, 13, 14, 224
- Trecastle, Lord, the last of the beavers, 133
- Tremayne, James, his solution of the exchange problem, 98
- Tryer, Dr., her methods, 75, 76
- Winterhead, see Blisworth, Lord.
- Woollcombe, Miss, the bowler, 24
- Wrightman, the sculptor, 173
1. Meaning, of course, the Five Years’ War.
2. Miss Linthorpe’s record did not seem so extraordinary then as it would now; even as late as the fifties I remember a few young men of thirty or thirty-five who had still some of their own teeth left.
3. Previously Baroness Engelberg, née Hopkins.
4. Previously Mrs. Sholto, previously Baroness Engelberg, née Hopkins.
5. Previously Mrs. Drake, previously Mrs. Sholto, previously Baroness Engelberg, née Hopkins.
6. Curiously enough, this hymn was written by a lady who afterwards became a Catholic, early in the century.
7. This was Augustus Hemmerde, afterwards famous as a dramatist.
8. This, it will be remembered, actually happened, and the raising of the premium to £7,500 was one of the chief counts against the Tory Party.
9. My father always used to speak of this as “the Coalition Government.” The name Cabal was invented by later historians to distinguish it from the 1974 Coalition; the names that suggested it were those of Churchill, Arthur (Balfour), Birkenhead, Austen (Chamberlain) and Lloyd (George).
10. The records are, however, somewhat scratched as the result of the fire at Cippenham in ’73.
11. Previously Lady Lushcombe, previously Mrs. Drake, previously Mrs. Sholto, previously Baroness Engelberg, née Hopkins.
12. The boys did not get any fees at all for staying at the school during the holidays, which, as it was against the rules, they nearly always did.
13. Previously Lady Stockdale, previously Lady Lushcombe, previously Mrs. Drake, previously Mrs. Sholto, previously Baroness Engelberg, née Hopkins.
14. Previously Mrs. Tarporley, previously Mme de Brignard, previously Lady Stockdale, previously Lady Lushcombe, previously Mrs. Drake, previously Mrs. Sholto, previously Baroness Engelberg, née Hopkins.
15. The title distinguishes him from the Ecumenical Bishop of Norwich, Dr. Bridler.
16. Previously Lady Travers-Grant, previously Mrs. Tarporley, previously Mme. de Brignard, previously Lady Stockdale, previously Lady Lushcombe, previously Mrs. Drake, previously Mrs. Sholto, previously Baroness Engelberg, née Hopkins.
17. ap. Baring, Collected Works, Vol. IV, p. 231. The attribution of the lines to Wordsworth is now generally discredited.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
- Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
- Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.