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“... his sisters in October 1939, whereas Winston was ‘enjoying every moment of the war’. As for Lord Halifax, no shrinking violet in political argument, the thought of being a war leader made him feel sick. Equally important, however, were the limits of Churchill’s military experience. He had charged with the cavalry at Omdurman and led hazardous patrols ...”

“... of the Korean War, Winston Churchill was about to step out onto the croquet lawn with his doctor, Lord Moran, and with Field Marshal Montgomery, when Monty asked him: ‘What is our policy in Korea? It is no good making war without a policy.’ Churchill replied with a reference to the President of South Korea: If I were in charge, I would withdraw the ...”

“... 1953, after his stroke, he tells Clementine that he is resting up in bed and is going to take a ‘Moran’ before his big speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Margate – an event about which his circle was nervous. ‘Moran’ is a reference to his personal physician, Charles ...”

“... the scenes, rehearsing the roles he was to play in Cabinet and Parliament. As with the diaries of Lord Moran, Churchill’s doctor, the inescapable theme is one of decline: the gradual descent of Churchill into old age, in parallel with the running down of Britain as a great power. But the starting-point is different, and so is the perspective. ...”

“... London hospital consultants and those elsewhere, and most of all between the prima donna figure of Lord Moran and everybody else. But the hospitals could not survive as they had been. There was no likelihood that the voluntary ones could go it alone because the level of taxation was high enough to preclude the charity they would need. Collecting silver ...”

“... Morell is the sort of figure every decent John Buchan chap loves to hate. (Mr Irving likens him to Lord Moran, Churchill’s physician – could it be his contempt for the Establishment that explains a comparison as inaccurate as it is insulting?) Morell was as well-informed on most aspects of internal medicine as the average GP of the time, and had a ...”

“... many, though the genuinely anguished cries of true devotees can also be heard above the din. When Lord Moran published his take-the-temperature-and-tell memoirs in 1966, not only breaching doctor-patient confidentiality but also revealing that WWW2 was sometimes ill as well as often tipsy, not to say smashed (things, to be sure, entirely unexpected of a ...”

“... girl power, suffocatingly individualistic even in a group. That’s not to say I didn’t know – Lord, did I know – how good it felt, giddy and strong and exorcised, to be inside that sort of power, to inhabit a feminism that was all about me. I look back and see myself thrashing along to Courtney Love singing ‘Violet’ in my bedroom: for three minutes ...”

“... from this technique.’ It fell to the Royal College of Physicians to offer an olive branch. Lord Moran, its president, asked the Minister to make it clear that he would amend the Act to ensure that a system of salaries would not be implemented, suggesting that, in return, doctors would support the NHS. Bevan agreed, and an amending Act was drawn ...”

“... out. A sentence in McGahern’s most recent novel, Amongst Women (1990), is similar; it concerns Moran, the farmer, on the occasion of his second wedding: ‘During the entire day he felt a violent, dissatisfied feeling that his whole life was taking place in front of his eyes without anything at all taking place.’ The lives McGahern customarily describes ...”

“... democratic experiment with ill-concealed satisfaction. ‘Everybody is laughing at us,’ Benjamin Moran, the under-secretary at the US Legation in London, complained. The Saturday Review jeered at Seward, who, ‘though he cannot keep the Federal fort at Charleston, has several times announced his intention of annexing Canada’. In the Economist, Walter ...”

“... and biographer whose work overflowed with argument and ideas. The conclusion to his life of Lord Randolph is a model of the way these things should be done. In 1946 he began work, with the aid of a research team, on his six-volume history of the Second World War. The influence of the book was colossal: a generation of readers took it to be the ...”

“... an obsession which persisted right up to the lace knickers sported by ‘Gorgeous Gussie’ Moran in 1949, designed by Teddy Tinling, whose costumes often took up more column inches than the women’s performance on court. In the boardroom, men continued to call the shots. The first woman to sit on the executive committee of the All England Club was ...”

“... commanding the respect of colonial subordinates. In his memoir Spearhead in Malaya (1959), J.W.G. Moran described the pleasure he took in beating a suspect. ‘I shook him like a rat,’ he wrote. ‘His eyes shot up and down like ping-pong balls.’ In Gordon Landsborough’s novel The Violent People (1960), set in Cyprus, the hero is initially unconvinced ...”

“... Today’s tabloids are particularly vicious. Not for them magnanimity in victory. ‘Arise Lord Gorbals’, the front page of the Mail sneers over a story focusing on the size of the Speaker’s pension. 21 May. Sure enough, having disposed of the Speaker, the Tory media have launched a campaign for a snap election – exactly as Frank Dobson ...”