About our contributors:
GERMAINE GREER
Born during bush fire in Melbourne in 1939. Educated by nuns and two Australian univer- sities, she became very active in the under- ground press and determined to leave her homeland. Arrived in Cambridge 1964 and after gaining PHD went to Warwick Univer- sity, where she teaches English Literature. Was once married but now lives with her cat who, she tells me 'is a very efficient mother and a constant reproach to me';
CHRISTOPHER BOOKER
Educated at Corpus Christi, Cambridge (down the road from Peterhouse). Worked briefly for the Liberal News, and then be- came jazz critic of the Sunday Telegraph, an occupation from which he retired shortly after reviewing a concert one week earlier than the date it took place. He then founded Private Eye and worked as its editor for eighteen months (notching up a circulation of 90,000) before being sacked by his staff. Since this, he has written fairly regularly for the SPECTATOR and was David Frost's resi- dent political scriptwriter during the first two of his satire shows. His first book, The Neophiliacs' is now in paperback. He has just started work on another,
PETER QUENNELL Born in 1905. Has written biographies of Byron, Ruskin, Hogarth, Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Has edited 'History Today' for twenty years, and before that ran the Cornhill Magazine. Has also edited books on several subjects from Shakespeare Quota- tions to the Memoirs of William Hickey.
LORD TODD
Alexander Roberius Todd, of Trumpington, has been Profess-or of Organic Chemistry at the University of Cambridge since 1944, and is the first Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1957, and is a member, or honorary member, of innumer- able Academies of Sciences. He chaired the Royal Commission on Medical Education from 1965-68.
DAVID WALDER M.P.
42 year old MP for Clitheroe, educated at Christchurch, now PPS to Minister for Trade. A contributor to the SPECTATOR for the past three years, he has written four novels and a study of 1922 crisis and is cur- rently working on an appraisal of the Russo- Japanese War. His great love is ornithology and he lives with his Samoyed, his wife and four children.
JOHN GRIGG
Born 1924. Father first Baron Altrincham. disclaimed title July 1963. Editor National and English Review 1954-60, regular colum- nist on Guardian 1960-67, now freelance political journalist. Has written one book 'Two Anglican Essays'. 'Nice contested and twice beaten at Oldham West for the Con- servatives.
EDWARD NORMAN
Is. a frocked clergyman of the Church of England. Also the Secretary of the History Faculty, a lecturer in History and fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. Has written several books on Irish history, and his most recent The History of Modern Ireland, is being published in March by Allen Lane the Penguin Press. When not at work, he sits round drinking claret and making bored con• versation to mostly unintelligent people,
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