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]
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[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.