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Nick Jenkins, who has come to a remote seaside hotel to bury his tiresome Uncle Giles, runs across the bounderish Duport, an Eton and Oxford acquaintance whose wife has briefly been Nick's mistress. From Duport, Nick learns that his beloved Jean has been unfaithful not only to Duport (an event of which Duport is mercifully unaware) but to Nick. The classic comedy of cuckold and lover and the excruciating embarrassments involved have seldom been done so well in English. There is a party at the castle of Sir Magnus Donners, "the great industrialist," who is widely suspected...
Like Harold Macmillan, Grimond is a Scot who attended Eton and won a scholarship to Oxford's austere Balliol College -and, like the Prime Minister, he is wedded to his work. Grimond's wife Laura is the daughter of Lady Violet Bonham Carter, perennial high priestess of the Liberal Party, and herself the daughter of Lord Asquith, who in 1908 became Prime Minister in the party's last elected government. (Winston Churchill was his famed First Lord of the Admiralty...
...they drank and diced." Lamb was never certain who his father was because, as he put it, his mother "was not chaste." But he grew up with a sense of security in his close-knit, comfortable family, early developed a spirit of reasonableness. He fled his first fistfight at Eton with no sense of shame: "If I found I could not lick the fellow, I said, 'come, this won't do; it's no use standing here to be knocked to pieces...
Heir to a fortune in shipping and industrial shares (W. R. Grace & Co.), Beaumont discreetly left Eton before he was expelled ("I pinched things," he explains), lazed his way through Oxford as a student of agriculture and founded a club dedicated to reviving the lusty ways of 19th century Regency bucks. Shortly after he came down from Oxford, he decided to become a priest. "I can't explain why," he says. "God seems to call one, but not until one is halfway there does one really realize that...
Died. John Christie, 80, a onetime Eton science master who devoted his million-dollar inheritance to founding the Glyndebourne Opera (in 1934) on his Sussex estate, turned it into a musical mecca where Britain's bluebloods enjoyed summer festivals of mostly Mozart; at Glyndebourne, England...