Footing the bill
Jonathan Parry, 9 June 1994
Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain
by David Cannadine.
Yale, 321 pp., £19.50, April 1994,0 300 05981 7 Show More
by David Cannadine.
Yale, 321 pp., £19.50, April 1994,
“... cadger and incorrigible scrounger’ who ‘ate, drank, gambled and spent to excess’. F.E. Smith was ‘a drunk, a gambler and a spendthrift ... rude ... and ruthless’. The second Baron Sackville was ‘lonely, unmarried, taciturn, disappointed and embittered’; the fifth Baron was ‘self-centred, ineffectual, delicate, neurotic, lonely and ... ”