A Spectator's Notebook
For five brothers to be equal partners in a City business must be exceptional; for them also to share a bachelor house is unique. The quintet I have in mind were the grandsons......
Uncle Dudley
Dudley was the youngest of the brothers and the one whose unusual ways I most vividly remember. Shortly after the last war he bought a hearse, not because he had any intention......
Sport And Art
Martin Leggatt, the third brother, did not welcome prospective customers on Tuesday or Thursday afternoons. After lunching in a neighbouring club he would retire with his......
Hidden Treasure
Both Christie's and Sotheby's end their auction seasons at the beginning of August, starting afresh in early October. During those arid summer months, however, a few other......
Relative Values
Foreigners are often perplexed by the Englishman's liking for pictures of horses. Perhaps the remark made in 1812 by Ben Marshall — one of our greatest sporting artists —......
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