Word: birley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best answer came from Eton's headmaster, Robert Birley, who traced the words back to Montalembert's De l'Avenir Politique de I'Angleterre, published in 1855. According to Count Montalembert, the Duke of Wellington, returning to Eton in his old age, exclaimed: "It is here that the battle of Waterloo was won." Obviously the playing fields had been tucked in later. Triumphantly, the seventh Duke wrote another letter to the Times last week: "The only authority for attributing the phrase to Wellington is a Frenchman writing three years after the Duke's death . . . Wellington...
...show of 96 pictures by 71-year-old Portraitist Sir Oswald Birley was made notable especially by the splendid, painted presences of Princess Elizabeth and her handsome prince in fancy regalia...