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George Trant was a member of the Upton Arts Club.
In the room over Burlington’s Music Emporium the Upton Arts Club met on Sunday evenings at 8.30.
One Sunday during the discussion following a paper on “Cézanne and the Modernists,” George drawled sleepily from his arm-chair by the fire:
“Of course, as a staunch Conservative in politics, I——” A startled hush fell upon the assembly. “Disraelian, I need hardly say,” he added, and the amazement was more profound....