20 SEPTEMBER 1969, page 11

Personal Column

Layman's dilemma SIMON RAVEN Some weeks ago, I was attacked by a pain- ful and humiliating infection of the bladder, the precise details of which I shall with- hold. It is......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator', 18 September 1869- Lady Palmerston died at Brockett Hall, Herts, this day week, in the eighty-third year of her age. She was, when Countess Cowper. one of......