INDEX OF PERSONS REFERRED TO
Reading edition
Adgate, Sir Mark, his curious watch, 133
Albert, H.R.H. Prince (afterwards King Albert I), 202
Amboise, Mademoiselle, 21
“Antoinette,” her prescription, 80
Archdale, Leonard, the actor, 95
Banks, Wynefryde, 30, 118
Bates, Sir Arthur, his intrepid candidature, 151
Billericay, Lord, 129, 147, 177, 184, 187, 207
Birkenhead, Bishop of, amusing anecdote told by, 208
Bisset, Mrs., on War-aims, 238
Blisworth, Lady, 1, 10, 22, 25, 43, 73, 183
Blisworth, Lord, 1, 4, 11, 14, 16, 25, 81, 82
Bowles, Dr., 74
Brede, Marquis of, 166‒168, 211
Breder, Dr., on raw tomatoes, 137
St. Briavel’s, Countess of, 129
de Brignard, Comtesse, see Tarporley.
Burstall, the “Futurist” artist, 173, 202
Bythorpe, Lord, his versatility, 41
Cheadle, Lord, his speech at Oxford, 41
Combe, Lady, 88‒92, 112‒114, 126, 180
Combe, Sir Richard, 88, 127
Crawshall, “Dick,” rides a bicycle, 131
Cubitt’s house at Eton, 183
Dives, Canon, 45‒47, 50, 51, 119‒122, 188, 212, 213‒221, 225
Dolman, Dr., chest specialist, 158
Drake, Mrs., see Lushcombe.
Druce, Mr., Superintendent of the Berthellot Institute, 77‒79
Drysdale, Lady Jacynth, her coloured teeth, 131
Drywater, Professor, of Aberdeen, on travelling expenses, 162
Ducie, John, his reckless feats, 134
Engelberg, Baroness, see Sholto.
Engelstein, Lady, 131, 188
Farnham, the Hon. Mrs., 151
242Fearon, Hon. Algernon, his unusual accomplishment, 130
Feilding, Dr., of Christ Church, a popular lecturer, 36
ffynes, Sir Hugh, 211
Fitzgerald, the actor, 95
von Fleissing, Landgrab, on religion, 60
Forres, Lady Anne, 38
Fothergill, Professor, the younger, 194
Frodsham’s house at Eton, 183
Garvice, Miss, on the Absolution, 44
Geraghty, Daniel, Prime Minister of Ireland, 194
Goodge, Dame Beatrice, 205
Grant, the late Mrs., 133
Griggs, Holbeach, 138‒142
Grosheim, Lady Georgina, 131, 139, 140, 187
Gunter, Sir Hubert, 145, 165, 166
Hammond, George, the historian, 146, 207
Harkness, Francis, 128, 158, 177, 179, 190, 191, 211
Harkness, Gervase, 128, 157, 158, 177, 185, 190, 211
Harkness, Wilson, see Porstock, Lord.
Hawkesley, Tulip, 30
Hazelbright, Sir Philip, 157
Henricourt, the novelist, 196‒197
Hodges, James, 122‒124, 127, 176
Hodgkins, Trevor, his breakfast at the Zoo, 135
Holbrook, the actor, 95
Holly, Lady Frances, does “knitting”, 131
Holroyd, The Right Hon. James, 155‒157, 162, 166, 168‒170, 210, 211
Hopedale, Viscount, 145, 147, 150, 152, 163, 188
Hopgood, Frank (afterwards White-Elephant-at-Arms), 106, 130
Hopgood, Irene, an exacting guest, 130
Hopkins, see Engelberg.
Hopps, Adèle, and her hair, 132
Hoskyns, of B.N.C., the geographer, 35, 42, 43, 119
Humbledon, Lady, 139
Krausenberg, Dr., his theory of education, 180
Labadie, 95
Leek, Sapphire: Countess of, 137, 195
Lennox, the artist, 186, 202
Lestrange, General, 14
243Lieberts, “Tommy”, 129, 153, 188
Linklater, Sybil, Lady, her revolving ball-room, 136
Linthorpe, Miss, 12, 13, 43, 51, 65, 66‒71, 122, 123, 191, 224
Linthorpe, see also Blisworth, Lady.
Lock, “Archie”, 132, 135, 140, 142, 175, 177, 187, 207
Lushcombe, Lady, see Stockdale.
Macdonald, “Fatty”, 30
McGillivray, the comic artist, 208
McGinnis, His Grace Duke, 100
McKechnie, Mrs., her “Reminiscences Edwardian and Albertian”, 148, 149
Mainwaring, the poet, 189
Margate, Esther, her acute feminism, 206‒207
Marrett, Lady, 204
Massachussets, Lady, 109, 110
Merewether, Dame Louise, her recklessness and caution, 135, 137
Mersham, Miss, numismatics mistress, runs away, 29
Michigan, Duke of, 131
Millthorpe, Viscount, 150
Montrose, Miss, Head Mistress, 18‒20, 165
Murchison, General, 102
van Murphy, Mr. and Mrs., 104‒105
Myslok, the novelist, 63
Nuneaton, Angela Lady, 135, 138, 139
O’Leary, the actor, 95
O’Leary, the K.C., 192‒193
O’Shaugnessy, President (U.S.A.), 9
Palliser, Capt. Jane, 30
Partridge, Mrs. Justice, 193
Perse, Lord, 169
Peterson, the philanthropist, 229
Philpotts, Dame Horatia, 154‒155
Pirbright, Edgar, the poet, 185, 199
Polebridge, Lady, 78, 93, 116‒118, 126, 175, 186, 198, 237
Poltwhistle, Lord Chief Justice, 192
Porstock, Wilson Lord, 100, 109‒111, 124‒127, 142, 170, 189
Poughkeepsie, Lord and Lady, 103‒105
Pulbrooke, Countess of (in her own right), 167, 174, 187
Rivers, Mrs., on chewing, 107
244Ropes, Charles, 99, 147, 148
Rowlands, Rev. Agape, 86, 87, 89‒92, 108, 109, 114‒116, 124, 127, 158, 176
Rowlands, Rev. Didymus, 85, 87, 90, 91, 213
Rymer, Sir Alexander, 74
Sanderson, the Præteritist portrait-painter, 201‒205
Sandham, Lord, wears “starched” collars, 133
Sandridge, Dr., Head-Master of Eton, 185
Savage, Juliet, 30, 31, 39, 41, 52, 77, 79, 86, 118, 119, 122, 125, 144, 172, 177, 187, 188, 206, 225
Schultz, Herr, the pædagogist, 178‒180
Shanks, Dr., 73
Sholto, Mrs., see Drake.
Sitwell, Dame Mary, the scalp specialist, 132
Smith, H.E., Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster, 189, 209, 221, 222
Sonnenschein, Miss, 77
Spink, Mrs., authoress of Eugenics for Lower Forms, 137
Stockdale, Lady, see de Brignard.
Tarporley, Mrs., see Travers-Grant, Lady.
Tonks, Arthur, Regius Professor of Statistics, 163
Toogood, Ena, 37
Townshend’s house at Eton, 183
Travers, Eustace, his versatility, 41
Travers-Grant, Lady, see Polebridge.
Trecastle, Lady, 13, 14, 224
Trecastle, Lord, the last of the beavers, 133
Tremayne, James, his solution of the exchange problem, 98
Tryer, Dr., her methods, 75, 76
Winterhead, see Blisworth, Lord.
Woollcombe, Miss, the bowler, 24
Wrightman, the sculptor, 173
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