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35
“Germ planted”:
The Times
, July 17, 1895, leader.

36
“Dominant influences”: q. Magnus,
Gladstone
, 433.

37
Dufferin taught himself Persian: Nicolson, 246.

38
“Those damned dots”: Leslie, 30–31.

39
Stanley “an upper class servant”: T. P. O’Connor, q. R. Churchill,
Derby
, 45.

40
Eton’s “scugs”: Willoughby de Broke, 133.

41
Cecil Balfour forged a check: Young, 11.

42
Sargent asked Ribblesdale to sit: Mount, 418.

43
“Ce grand diable
”: Ribblesdale, xvii.

44
“A race of gods and goddesses”: Clermont-Tonnerre (
see
Chap. 4), I, 175.

45
“Divinely tall”: E. Hamilton, 7.

46
Gentlemen sighed and told each other: Sackville-West, 122.

47
“Bohemia in Tiaras”: Benson, 157.

48
Prince of Wales to Churchill: W. Churchill, 155.

49
“I shall call you the Souls”: q. Nevins, 81.

50
Two sets of eyebrows: Melba, 226.

51
“I don’t like poets”: Wyndham, I, 67.

52
Harry Cust’s “fatal self-indulgence”: Margot Asquith, q. Nevins, 81.

53
Lord Morley’s detective: Fitzroy, II, 463.

54
“Brilliant and powerful body”: W. Churchill, 89.

55
“Knew each other intimately”: Willoughby de Broke, 180.

56
Jowett’s choice of undergraduates: Newton,
Lansdowne
, 6.

57
“No end of good dinners”: Willoughby de Broke, 30.

58
“Effortless superiority”: Leslie, 43.

59
“Poor fellow, poor fellow”: Marsh, 183.

60
“Born booted and spurred”: Gardiner,
Prophets
, 214.

61
“When I looked at life from the saddle”: Warwick,
Discretions
, 78.

62
Chauncey Depew’s telegram: Robert Rhodes James,
Rosebery
, London, 1963, 355.

63
“Even policemen were waving their helmets”: Lee, II, 421.

64
Londesborough’s “gloss, speed and style”: Sitwell,
Left Hand
, 154.

65
“Because the carriage had to go home”: Raverat, 178.

66
Blunt’s sonnet: “On St. Valentine’s Day.”

67
Duke of Rutland’s chaplain: Cooper, 20.

68
Squire Chaplin in the hunting field: Lambton, 133; Londonderry, 227, 240.

69
“Sure of themselves”: Sitwell,
Great Morning
, 10, 121–22.

70
Colonel Brabazon described: W. Churchill, 67; testimony quoted: Esher, I, 362.

71
Figures on income and acreage: Bateman,
passim.

72
The “poverty line”: set by B. S. Rowntree at 21s. 8
d
. for a family of five. In
Poverty, A Study of Town Life
, 1901.

73
“Eau de Nil satin”: Warwick, 230.

74
“Then bwing me another”: W. Churchill, 68.

75
“Squalid throng of homeless outcasts”: A. Ponsonby,
Camel
, 12.

76
Kipling on venting chauvinism:
American Notes
(see Chap. 3), 45.

77
“Knew his own mind and put down his foot”: Whyte (see Chap. 5), II, 115.

78
“A series of microscopic advantages”: q.
Monthly Review
, Oct., 1903, “Lord Salisbury,” 8.

79
Morley Roberts: q. Peck (see Chap. 3), 428.

80
“All his bad qualities”: Hyndman (see Chap. 7), 349.

81
“I was a problem”: to More Adey, Nov. 27, 1897,
Letters
, 685.

82
Lord Arthur Somerset: Magnus,
Edward VII
, 214–15.

83
Swinburne “absolutely impossible”: H. Ponsonby, 274.

84
“Join it”: Hyndman (
see
Chap. 7), 349.

85
“I dare not alter these things”: Marsh, 2.

86
Austin on Germans and Alfred the Great: q. Adams, 76, n. 3.

87
Salisbury on Austin’s poem: Victoria, Letters, 24.

88
An American observer quoted: Lowell, II, 507.

89
Austin’s Jubilee wish: Blunt, I, 280.

90
Lord Newton on the Lords:
Retrospection
, 101.

91
Rosebery complained: Crewe, 462.

92
Halsbury “invariably objected”: Newton,
Lansdowne
, 361; “jolly cynicism”: Gardiner,
Prophets
, 197; Carlton Club: Wilson-Fox, 122; Lord Coleridge:
ibid
., 124.

93
“Rule by a sort of instinct”: q. Halévy, V, 23, n. 2.

94
“Greatest gentleman of his day”: Newton,
Lansdowne
, 506.

95
“A new sense of duty”: Holland, II, 146. All quotations, anecdotes and other material about the Duke are from this source unless otherwise specified.

96
“Take things very easy”: H. Ponsonby, 265.

97
“This is damned dull”: Mackintosh, 113.

98
Duchess “one of the handsomest women”: F. Hamilton, 201.

99
“No face was more suited”: F. Ponsonby, 52.

100
“Certain hereditary governmental instincts” and “a debt to the State”: Esher, I, 126.

101
“He was always losing them”: H. Ponsonby, 265 n.

102
Duke at coronation rehearsal: Lucy,
Diary
, 193.

103
“Do you feel nervous, Winston?”: R. Churchill,
Fifteen Homes
, 105.

104
“The best of company”: F. Ponsonby, 294.

105
Spectator
and subsequent quotations in this paragraph: Strachey, 406 and 398; Holland, II, 211, n. 1;
The Times
, Mar. 25, 1908.

106
“Go and tell him he is a pig”: Mackintosh, 91.

107
“A point of honor to stand for their county”: Sir George Otto Trevelyan, q. A. Ponsonby,
Decline
, 101.

108
Long and Chaplin described: Gardiner,
Pillars
, 217;
Prophets
, 212.

109
“Calm, ineradicable conviction”: Gardiner,
Prophets
, 213.

110
“How did I do, Arthur?”: Londonderry, 171.

111
“Sit on his shoulder blades”: q. Young, 100.

112
“The finest brain”: q. Chamberlain, 206.

113
William James: letter of Apr. 26, 1895,
The Letters of William James
, ed. H. James, Boston, 1920.

114
“Oh dear, what a gulf”: Battersea, Diary for Sept. 6, 1895.

115
“Lovely bend of the head”: Margot Asquith, I, 166.

116
“No, that is not so”: Margot Asquith, I, 162.

117
Darwin on Frank Balfour: Young, 8.

118
Cambridge friends: Esher, I, 182; society friends: Russell, 63.

119
Balfour on Judaism: Dugdale, I, 324.

120
Harry Cust’s dinner: Bennett, I, 287.

121
Daisy White congratulated: Nevins, 81.

122
“Quite a good fellow”: Frances Balfour, II, 367; “A sympathetic outlook”:
ibid
., II, 93.

123
“A natural spring of youth”:
ibid
.; “a freshness, serenity”: Fitzroy, I, 28.

124
Lord Randolph:
Life of Lord Randolph Churchill
, by Winston Churchill, II, 459–60.

125
Balfour on Socialism: q. Halévy, V, 231.

126
“What exactly
is
a Trade Union?”: Lucy Masterman (
see
Chap. 7), 61.

127
“My uncle is a Tory”: Margot Asquith, I, 154.

128
Churchill used the word “wicked”: Blunt, II, 278.

129
“Relentless as Cromwell”: Young, 105.

130
Morley, “took his foes by surprise”: q. Russell, 66.

131
“The most courageous man alive”: Blunt, II, 278.

132
Debated with “dauntless ingenuity”: Morley, I, 225–27.

133
“If he had a little more brains”: q. Buchan, 156.

134
“A bullet on a bubble”: Andrew White (
see
Chap. 5), II, 430.

135
“I never lose my temper”: q. Morley, I, 227.

136
“This damned Scotch croquet”: Lyttelton, 204.

137
Reply to Lady Rayleigh: Fitzroy, II, 491; charmed Frau Wagner: Esher, I, 312.

138
“Supreme energy of Arthur”:
ibid
., 340.

139
“He never reads the papers”: Whyte (
see
Chap. 5), II, 120.

140
Prince felt Balfour condescended: Halévy, VI, 231.

141
The Queen admired him: F. Ponsonby, 69.

142
Queen “much struck”: Journal, Sept. 11, 1896, Victoria, 74.

143
Proust’s housekeeper: q. Havelock Ellis (
see
Chap. 4), 377.

144
Queen Victoria, “No one ever”: q. Hector Bolitho,
Reign of Queen Victoria
, 366.

145
Kipling, “a certain optimism”: Kipling, 147.

146
Sir Edward Clarke, “The greatest poem”: q. Amy Cruse,
After the Victorians
, London, 1938, 123.