21 MAY 1988, page 33

Blood Of The Lambtons

Alastair Forbes THOSE LAMBTONS! A MOST UNUSUAL FAMILY by John Colville Hodder, £12.95, pp. 256 I read somewhere', a shocked ac- quaintance lately remarked to me, 'that you were......

. . . Very Much Unlike What People Write

Peter Quennell BYRON'S TRAVELS by Allan Massie Sidgwick & Jackson, £15, pp.221 `A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence', Byron in 1822 told his comparatively......