[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.