1 APRIL 1995, page 22

Meeting One Of History's Footnotes

Simon Courtauld shares a drink with Alan Walker, Lord Curzon's cipher clerk, and still going strong at 100 IT WAS 11 o'clock in the morning, we were sitting in a converted......

Barings, Vesteys: Who's Next?

Martin Vander Weyer examines the prospects of old money in the wake of two spectacular business failures among the gentry IN AN ERA of giant impersonal corpora- tions known only......