Word: baronets
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...grandson Anthony Glyn (nom de plume for Sir Geoffrey Davson, Baronet) makes plain in his slightly pious but consistently entertaining biography, the woman behind the legend was no pan-therish love goddess but a proper Victorian who put little sex into her books and found no satisfying love in her life...
...your article anent the new Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden . . . you say two of Eden's brothers, Timothy and Nicholas, were killed. When last heard of in 1949, Sir Timothy Calvert Eden was going strong as eighth baronet, and so to speak, chief of the family tong. It was John Eden-the eldest of four brothers of whom Timothy was second, Anthony third and Nicholas fourth - who was killed in the Kaiser's war in France . . . Nicholas, a midshipman, died in the Battle of Jutland...
...TIME erred. Sir Timothy, head of the House of Eden, leads a squire's life in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, has written several books (Five Dogs and Two More, The Tribulations of a Baronet), finds time to teach in a girls' school and dash off occasional oil paintings. For his portrait of Brother Anthony...
...Edens come of Norman stock, and as far back as the 15th century one lusty Robert de Eden carved out a fiefdom close to the Scottish border. Charles II made Sir Robert Eden a baronet in 1672. The family, though seldom conspicuous, won acceptance in the gilded circle of the aristocracy through its large landholdings and its far-flung marriage alliances. Through his mother, Sybil Frances Grey, Sir Anthony is connected with the Earls of Westmoreland, and the Mowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk. His young second wife, Clarissa, is the niece of Sir Winston Churchill...
Aldington goes to infinite pains, complete with family genealogies, to prove that T. E. Lawrence and his four brothers were the illegitimate sons of a baronet named Chapman. He goes deep into the family's private history to debunk tales of his hero's childhood precocity. Stirred to action by a former biographer's statement that Lawrence claimed to have read "all the books" in the Oxford Union Library, Aldington lists the total (50,000) to prove the task impossible. Even Lawrence's claim to have ridden camelback at the pace of 100 miles...