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...As historian Hugh Trevor-Roper showed in his (in)famous essay about the invention of Scottish tradition, many tartans are based on the patterns contained in two books produced by two English brothers, John...
...John D Rockefeller was a great patron of the island and its landscape and appreciated Savage’s talent....
...He attended Christ Church at the University of Oxford, where his history tutor was Hugh Trevor-Roper, and gained a first....
...Vogue’s Hamish Bowles was thrilled to wear a pair of supple leather lilac ropers, which he had had made in Texas years before....
...Cream, buff and pink is the general view in current catalogues, but Roper saw its unusual charm....
...It went on: “He . . . recently met Hugh Trevor-Roper (an old contact of his) who, he says, is very worried about the situation in Oxford.”...
...Garden designers were scarce and most country-house owners knew only about Lanning Roper, the quiet American master planter....
...The thing I’m eyeing next is a John Woolf house in LA....
...The card on the next-door guest room says “Joanna Roper”. Who is she, I ask? Roper is the Foreign Office’s special envoy for gender equality. She is here to meet her Trump counterparts....
...Sales refers slyly to the plantings of a modern master, Lanning Roper, as “conspicuous overlay”, but nobody knew better than Roper “what’s nice and nasty”. Should not his “overlay”, too, be preserved?...
...“If I was an RIA, I’d be very concerned with the sea-change of regulation, because the tone is antagonistic towards RIAs,” says Ms Roper....
...Jenrette died at Roper House, the 19th-century Greek Revival Charleston mansion he bought in the 1960s, after battling lymphoma for several years....
...Were they reminded of John, chapter 8, verse 7? One rather hopes not. matthew.vincent@ft.com...
...Don’t tell Jeremy Corbyn or John McDonnell....
...On Monday, General Electric’s John Flannery unveiled his most ambitious deal since taking over from Jeff Immelt last August: an $11.1bn deal with Wabtec, the freight and passenger locomotive manufacturer...
...John Campbell — founder of Glenrath Farms, one of the world’s largest producers of free-range eggs — becomes a knight....
...Mr Cameron is the first prime minister since John Major to submit a resignation honours list....
...Mr Cameron is the first prime minister since John Major to issue a resignation list. Neither Gordon Brown nor Tony Blair availed of the opportunity....
...In the past few months, Thoma Bravo has sold three of its bigger bets, including Deltek, which it bought for $1bn in 2012 and sold on to Roper Technologies for $2.8bn....
...The series: In this six-part Anglo-US adaptation of John le Carré’s spy novel, British former soldier Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) is recruited by intelligence officer Angela Burr (Olivia Colman) to infiltrate...
...With Confabulations (Penguin), John Berger fashions his brand of reflective and sensual prose into a slim but utterly beautiful book....
...As the author of first-rate biographies of historians AJP Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sisman knows well the mores and machinations of the establishment....
...Prof Stephen Roper, who led the ERC research, said: “The findings run counter to the dominant narrative of a country dependent on London, with innovation being more dispersed across the country than was...
...Already, the resistance from the financial services industry is “huge,” says John Keenan, a lobbying specialist at AFSCME, the largest trade union of public employees in the US....
...“We need our growing businesses to invest, innovate and break into new markets to secure the long-term health of our economy,” said John Cridland, CBI director-general....
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