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Sir John Verney, Bt.

Yesterday’s post gives, I hope, a tantalising glimpse of a Renaissance man: Sir John Verney, Bt. His obituary, in The Times 5th February 1993, fills out the picture.

Never a Dull Moment

The genealogy of the Royal Family in the last 150 years should be a set question for applicants to the College of Arms.

Ask Sir James

Sir James is Sir James Reid, personal physician to Queen Victoria.

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Something Fishy

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you. (I Thessalonians iv:11)

A War Trilogy

I am re-reading these three Brother Cadfael short stories out of nostalgia and because this slim volume fits into the pocket of my top coat.

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A Rising Man

“… the Bengal Civilian who goes to Writers’ Buildings and sits in a perfect office and speaks flippantly of ‘sending things into India,’ meaning thereby he refers matters to the Supreme Government. He is a great person, and his mouth is full of promotion-and-appointment ‘shop.’ Generally he is referred to as a ‘rising man.’ Calcutta seems… Continue reading A Rising Man

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