Thomas Woodcock, CVO, DL, Garter King of Arms, photographed by Hugo Rittson Thomas.
Category: Family
Snaffles
Snaffles, the early 20th century equestrian artist, unwittingly lent his name to a restaurant in a basement in Lower Leeson Street, Dublin, that opened in 1968. Four friends jointly owned it; a wine merchant called Fitzgerald, a flâneur called Cobby Knight and Rose and Nicholas Tinne. In those days small restaurants were unusual – people… Continue reading Snaffles
Stones of Venice
All The King’s Horses
66 Mark Lane
Don’t Expect The Orient Express
Walled Gardens
Walled Gardens is the title of Annabel Goff’s memoir about her childhood in the south of Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. (Since describing William Waldegrave’s book as a memoir I now find that it is an autobiography: the former is a description of one part of a person’s life, the latter the whole thing,… Continue reading Walled Gardens
To Jeremy In Islington
Battle of the Bench: Holman v Mostyn: The Verdict
Being driven back from Grange Park Opera a few years ago I noticed that our car was heading towards Basingstoke and London but that we were in the dual carriageway lane reserved for cars going to Winchester and points south. Although I was in an advanced state of drunkenness I was the only one to… Continue reading Battle of the Bench: Holman v Mostyn: The Verdict