¹ George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig (1918–2009).

¹ In his essay on the poet William Cowper.

² Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV, IV.i.114–15.

¹ T-R had broken his back in a hunting accident in 1948.

² From Surtees’s Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1853): ‘When a lord is in distress, consolation is never long in coming.’

¹ Michael Musmanno (1897–1968), Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania 1952–68. His account of Hitler’s end, Ten Days to Die (1950), attacked T-R and was scathingly reviewed by him in The Spectator, 16 March 1951.

² This is the motto of Scotland’s highest rank of chivalry, the Knights of the Thistle, meaning ‘No-one attacks me with impunity’. Dawyck Haig’s father had been invested as a KT in 1917.

¹ Denys Dawnay (1921–83) painted several prominent Oxonians: his oil portrait of A. L. Rowse is now in the National Portrait Gallery. David Hockney wrote the foreword to Dawnay’s collection of pastiche portraits of dachshunds dressed as German nobles, The House of Tekelden (2005).

² (Sir) Roy Harrod (1900–78), Student in Modern History and Economics at Christ Church 1924–57.