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My Great Aunt Aline (Lloyd Thomas) is buried in the churchyard of St Swithun (sic), Compton Beauchamp, Oxfordshire.

Father and Son

Ambrosio Bernardo O’Higgins y O’Higgins, 1st Marquess of Osorno (1720 – 1801) was born on the eastern shore of Lough Arrow in Sligo.

The Duke of Cumberland

“The Titles Deprivation Act (1917) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which authorised enemies of the United Kingdom during the First World War to be deprived of their British peerages and royal titles.”(Wikipedia)

Hughenden Revisited

28th May 1898; Queen Victoria attends William Gladstone’s State funeral in Westminster Abbey,

Cloud Cities

If you want people to know you have a cold, ostentatiously blow your nose; but if you are feeling pretentious, something I sometimes feel, it’s not so easy to signal.

Twelve Responses to Tragedy

If the Yalta conference features at all in our collective consciousness it is as the photograph of the Allied leaders taken by Robert Hopkins, son of Harry Hopkins.

You Know Who

As a child I don’t think I counted my blessings; I did curse curse my afflictions, like wet Sunday afternoons at prep school.