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...and protector of Hampstead Heath, while Dido is after Dido Belle, who lived with her great-uncle, the above-mentioned Lord Mansfield, in Kenwood House)....
...She had two brothers, Johnnie and Peregrine. During the war years she started to write....
...Light-bodied but wonderfully silky, it has notes of fine spices, coconut-y gorse flower, honey, Earl Grey tea and ginger biscuits....
...The Game of Thrones themed White Walker by Johnnie Walker also proved a hit. Revenues were up 6 per cent, profits after tax up 5 per cent....
...I loaded up my car, packing bike, two cats and plentiful supplies of Earl Grey, and made the eight-hour drive down. The route takes you through three distinct landscapes....
...In the case of Tiger Woods, an only son, his father Earl could have been an American football star....
...Belle was brought up by Lindsay’s uncle, the first Earl of Mansfield (and Lord Chief Justice of England) at Kenwood House in London....
...The minister cited in particular Jamie Williamson, laird of Dalraddy Estate, Johnnie Grant, laird of Rothiemurchus, and John Stuart, the Earl of Moray....
...By 1961, Needham’s father, newly-installed as the fifth earl, had decided to sell off the Kilmorey family seat....
...There were others, including the bawdy Restoration poet John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, and Scotland’s womanising, whisky-drinking Robbie Burns – but it was late 18th-century Romantics who established the...
...The picture came from the great historic collection of the earls of Clarendon, and was offered by Christie’s in London, correctly attributed....
...Szerb’s first novel, The Pendragon Legend, published in 1934 (but only now translated into English), has all the ingredients to please: a young, charming hero, an eccentric and reclusive ogre, a seductive belle...
...By contrast, the original investors in Belle spent $40,000 on their 5 per cent interest 10 years ago. “We recently sold Belle for $1.5m, so the original partners received $75,000 back.”...
...The roles of the Duchess of Auvergene, the Duke of Suffolk, the Earl of Warwick: these should be better spoken. What’s most marvellous as a rule is the amazing simplicity of the delivery....
...He avoids unnecessary lists of who played with whom, although you do have to know something of jazz to understand the significance of the likes of Jimmy Blanton and Earl Bostic....
...Belles Pierres, Les Clauzes de Jo 2003 Coteaux du Languedoc Stone, Vine & Sun £7.95 Full, powerful with masses of fruit but notable structure too. Drink over the next three years....
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