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Lamb Not For The Slaughter

Jane Ridley LORD MELBOURNE by L. G. Mitchell OUP, £.25, pp. 349 W hen William Lamb, the future prime minister Lord Melbourne, was a boy at Eton, he fought a boy who pummelled......

Fame Was The Spur

Jonathan Cecil A TROUSER-WEARING CHARACTER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF NANCY SPAIN by Rose Collis Cassell, £25, pp. 318 F ew people under 50 will have heard of Nancy Spain; the......