Word: baronets
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...insists that his personal expenses are covered by a shilling (14?) a day. He is more generous with others. His Isaac Wolfson Foundation, set up in 1955 with $17 million in G.U.S. stock, has donated more than $12 million to worthy causes; for his charities he was made a baronet early this year. Though most of his gifts go to British hospitals and universities, Sir Isaac also belongs to a remarkable club of 26 Britons, each of whom has contributed at least $1,000,000 to Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science...
...prince, Sir Isaac Wolfson, 64, has entered the field by merging William Cussons Co. into his Great Universal Stores Ltd. and plans to expand Cussons' present chain of 60 stores to at least 200 supermarkets. The son of poor Polish Jewish immigrants, Sir Isaac (he was made a baronet earlier this year for his large gifts to charity) started work in his father's Glasgow cabinetmaking shop, later set up his own furniture store in London. Picked during the Depression to run Great Universal, he has built it into the largest retailing enterprise outside the U.S.-a British...
...Britain's most imposing and impossible literary family, leaked the first bit of spleen: that D. H. Lawrence would be among her major targets for setting his Lady Chatterley's Lover at the Sitwell estate in Derbyshire and modeling the novel's war-maimed, cuckolded baronet after the elder of her brothers, Sir Osbert. "My brother," noted the Plantagenet-descended poetess, "is a baronet, and he fought like a tiger for his country in the First World War. I don't know why Lawrence should have done this to Osbert, who never harmed...
...protest against Eden's decision to launch the catastrophic Suez adventure). According to Nutting, a key fact is that Lawrence was illegitimate. At the age of ten, Lawrence learned that his father was not the respectable Welsh gentleman he seemed, but Sir Thomas Robert Chapman, an Irish baronet who had left his wife and four daughters to run off with the children's Scottish nanny, Sara Maden. Assuming the name of Lawrence, the two proved a faithful couple and produced five sons (Thomas was the second). But the discovery of his father's misbehavior so shocked Lawrence...
...headwaiter and hid under the table. He had, of course, an independent income (poor people with Firbank's temperament simply die or are shut away). He came from solid stock: his grandfather worked his way up from the coal mines to become a contractor, and his baronet father built "beautiful railways...