Barbara Wootton

Barbara Wootton is Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords. Her latest book is Crime and Penal Policy.

Letter

Trouble at the Met

5 April 1984

SIR: In his first criticism of my review of McNee’s Law Professor Punch is literally correct (Letters, 7 June). Lord Mountbatten did not mention the name of the previous Commissioner (Sir Robert Mark), but he is reported to have ‘looked across at Mark’, while saying: ‘I got him his job, you know.’ There could have been no point in that remark unless it was intended as a hint that history...

Pieces about Barbara Wootton in the LRB

Last Victorian

Jose Harris, 10 November 1994

Eminent social scientists are not normally household names, but in the middle decades of the 20th century Barbara Wootton was well-known far outside the dim corridors of universities....

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