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...Two of Whatmore’s other characters are Irish — Edmund Burke and William Petty, the earl of Shelburne, a politician who created a kind of intellectual think-tank, the Bowood Circle....
...So these fortresses can return to their original purpose through the lens of cinematography. Many are transformed into tourist attractions. The curiosity about power and privilege never abates....
...I shared my (initially somewhat furtive) Bowiephilia with one other boy at school and in May 1973 we saw him in concert at London’s cavernous Earl’s Court (tickets 50p each)....
...It was there even before PG Wodehouse invented the would-be dictator Roderick Spode (the “7th Earl of Sidcup”) and his fearsome Black Shorts. The cultural left isn’t there yet....
...After the #MeToo movement took off, I again investigated Thomas through the lens of sexual harassment and examined a new incident of groping after he had joined the court....
...Abell comes from Loughborough, a town in deepest middle England, yet he views the country through a mildly metropolitan lens....
...Similarly huge in scope is Paul Morland’s The Human Tide , a history of modern times through the lens of global population change (John Murray, January), while Felipe Fernández-Armesto purports to tell the...
...The Earl Cadogan, Charles Cadogan, was 16th with a £900m increase in his wealth to £5.7bn after steep increases in capital values and rents on about 200 London properties bought in 2014....
...René Dagron, a French inventor, combined a microphotograph with a magnifying lens — developed earlier in the century by Charles, 3rd Earl Stanhope — which he inserted into pieces of jewellery....
...He heard 19-year-old Lady Isabella Thynne, daughter of the Earl of Holland, playing her lute there delightfully....
...Hoover’s tendency to see the world through the lens of racial conflict, says Sides, was shared by many law enforcement officers who despised King and his civil rights movement....
...The Pendragon Legend By Antal SzerbTranslated by Len Rix Pushkin Press £7.99, 234 pages FT bookshop price: £6.39 Oliver VII By Antal SzerbTranslated by Len Rix Pushkin Press £7.99, 176 pages FT bookshop...
...Inherited property wealth marks the only British-born and domiciled contenders: the Duke of Westminster in number two position and Earl Cadogan at number 10. people@ft.com...
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