Up and Down Stairs (57 page)

48
. Hardyment, p. 44.

49
. Aslet, pp. 105–6.

50
. Lady Diana Cooper,
The Rainbow Comes and Goes
, first published 1954 (1982), pp. 34–5.

51
. Cooper,
The Rainbow Comes and Goes
, p. 35.

52
. Harrison (ed.),
Gentlemen’s Gentlemen
, p. 33.

53
. Devonshire,
The House
, p. 58.

54
. Fingall, pp. 115–16.

55
. Horn,
Life Below Stairs
, p. 23.

56
. Horn,
Life Below Stairs
, p. 23.

57
. Horn,
Life Below Stairs
, pp. 23–4.

58
. Letter from John Whittley, kept at Sudeley Castle; my thanks to Lydia Lebus and Jean Bray, the archivist at Sudeley.

59
. Horn,
Life Below Stairs
, p. 25.

60
. From the diary of James Stevenson of Braidwood, Lanarkshire, 6 November 1915, with thanks to Hew Stevenson for identifying these passages, and James Stevenson-Hamilton for permission to use them.

61
. 2 June 1917, from the diary of Colonel James Stevenson.

62
. 6 March 1924, from the diary of Colonel James Stevenson.

63
. Aslet, p. 99.

64
. Horn,
Life Below Stairs
, p. 36.

65
. Lanceley, p. 155.

66
. Lanceley, pp. 155–6.

67
. Lanceley, pp. 157–9.

68
. Horne, p. 9.

69
. Horne, p. 13.

70
. Horne, p. 109.

71
. Horne, p. 263.

72
. Horn,
Life Below Stairs
, p. 25.

73
. Horn,
Life Below Stairs
, p. 25.

74
. Horn,
Life Below Stairs
, p. 42.

75
. Horn,
Life Below Stairs
, p. 36.

76
. Frank Dawes,
Not in Front of the Servants
(1973), p. 147.

77
. Gorden Grimmett in Harrison (ed.),
Gentlemen’s Gentlemen
, p. 26.

78
. Harrison (ed),
Gentlemen’s Gentlemen
, pp. 33–5.

79
. Harrison (ed),
Gentlemen’s Gentlemen
, pp. 17–18.

80
. Charles Smith,
Fifty years with Mounbatten
(1980), pp. 17–19.

81
. Charles Smith, p. 18.

82
. Charles Smith, p. 19.

83
. Devonshire,
The House
, pp. 55–7.

84
. Devonshire,
The House
, pp. 55–7.

85
. Rosina Harrison,
Rose: My Life in Service
(1975), pp. 110–11.

86
. Harrison,
My Life
, pp. 128–9.

87
. Mrs Davidson, typescript of 1971 interview with James Dugdale, now Lord Crathorne; quoted with kind permission.

88
. Mrs Davidson (1971).

89
. Mrs Davidson (1971).

90
. Waterson (ed.),
The Country House Remembered
, p. 195.

91
. Memoirs of Mrs Jean Hibbert (afterwards Hibbert), typescript courtesy of the Trustees of the Goodwood Collection, p. 67.

92
. Hibbert, p. 68.

93
. Hibbert, p. 69.

94
. Hibbert, p. 69.

95
. Hibbert, p. 71.

96
. Hibbert, p. 71.

97
. Hibbert, pp. 71–2.

98
. Hibbert, p. 81.

99
. John Burnett,
Useful Toil
(1975), pp. 220–1 (afterwards Burnett).

100
. Burnett, p. 223.

101
. Burnett, p. 224.

102
. Burnett, p. 224.

103
. Burnett, pp. 225–6.

104
. Burnett, pp. 225–6.

105
. Burnett, pp. 238–41.

106
. Harrison,
My Life
, pp. 32–4.

107
. Harrison,
My Life
, p. 53.

108
. Harrison,
My Life
, p. 84.

109
. Harrison,
My Life
, p. 84.

110
. Harrison,
My Life
, p. 87.

111
. Philip Ziegler,
Osbert Sitwell
(1998), p. 12.

112
. Osbert Sitwell,
Cruel Month
(1977), p. 92 (afterwards Sitwell).

113
. Sitwell, p. 92.

114
. Robert McCrum,
Wodehouse: A Life
(2004), p. 22.

115
. P.G. Wodehouse,
Money in the Bank
(1942).

116
. Lavinia Smiley,
A Nice Clean Plate
(1981), pp. 6–12 and 32, and 70–72.

117
. Smiley, p. 12.

118
. Waterson (ed.),
Country House Remembered
, p. 205.

119
. Sir John Leslie, Bt, interview with the author, May 2008, and Mark Bence-Jones,
Life in the Irish Country House
(1996), pp. 69–71.

120
. The Hon. Mrs Mary Birkbeck, interview with the author, December 2008, and letter to the author, January 2009.

121
. Sir Peregrine Worsthorne,
Tricks of Memory
(1993), p. 41.

122
. Worsthorne, p. 35.

1
. John Cornforth,
Country Houses of England, 1948–1998
(1998), pp. 31–2.

2
. Caroline Seebohm,
The Country House: A Wartime History 1939–45
(1989), p. 39 (afterwards Seebohm).

3
. Observation by Julian Fellowes in an interview with the author, 30 January 2009.

4
. From ‘Notes on the Life of Harvey Lane’ transcript by David Stacey of Leigh Manor, Shropshire.

5
. From ‘Notes on the Life of Harvey Lane’.

6
. Christopher Simon Sykes,
The Big House
(2005), pp. 346–56.

7
.
Stately Service: Then and Now
(2007), pp. 11–15, and ‘Notes on the Life of Harvey Lane’.

8
.
Stately Service: Then and Now
(2007), pp. 11–15.

9
. Seebohm, p. 39.

10
. John Martin Robinson,
The Country House at War
(1989).

11
. Margaret Powell,
Below Stairs
(1984), p. 153.

12
. Ernest Gowers,
Houses of Outstanding Historic or Architectural Interest
(1950), section ii, paragraph 10.

13
. Gowers,
Houses of Outstanding Historic Interest
(1950), section ii, paragraph 12.

14
. Interview with Mrs Davidson in 1971, typescript, by kind permission of Lord Crathorne.

15
. Interview with Mrs Davidson (1971).

16
. Harrison
My Life
, pp. 178–9.

17
. Harrison
My Life
, p. 203.

18
. Harrison
My Life
, p. 203.

19
. Lesley Lewis,
Private Life of a Country House
(1982), p. 134.

20
. Horn,
Life Below Stairs
, p. 235.

21
. Information from Lady Mairi Bury of Mount Stewart, interview with the author, 5 September 2005.

22
. Sir John Leslie, interview with the author, May 2008.

23
. Barbara Cartland,
Etiquette Handbook
(2008), first published 1962, pp. 61–3 (afterwards Cartland).

24
. Cartland, p. 147.

25
. Cartland, p. 63.

26
. Cartland, p. 63.

27
. Cartland, p. 64.

28
. Information on the West Indies from John Hardy, recalling his father’s staff in the 1950s at Radbrooke Hall, Cheshire.

29
. Devonshire,
The House
, pp. 74–5 and 87.

30
. Information about staff from St Helena from Martin Gee of Weston Park and Martin Drury; Horn,
Life Below Stairs
, pp. 263–73; and information about Mrs Mion at Capesthorne Hall from an interview with Lydia Lebus.

31
. Stanley Ager and Fiona St Aubyn,
The Butler’s Guide
(1980), p. 9 (afterwards Ager). By kind permission of his daughter, Mrs Gill Joyce, and his co-author, Fiona St Aubyn.

32
. Ager, p. 8.

33
. Ager, p. 8.

34
. Ager, p. 10.

35
. Ager, p. 13.

36
. Ager, p. 13.

37
. Ager, p. 19.

38
. Ager, p. 19.

39
. Ager, p. 13.

40
. Lord Crathorne, interview with author, 14 December 2008.

41
. Lord Crathorne, interview.

42
. Lord Crathorne, interview.

43
. Lord Crathorne, interview.

44
. Lord Crathorne, interview.

45
. Gathorne-Hardy, pp. 30–70.

46
. Obituary of Michael Kenneally,
Daily Telegraph
, 30 October 1999, by Christopher Simon Sykes, and Christopher Simon Sykes, interview with the author, 19 January 2009.

47
. Christopher Simon Sykes, interview.