¹ David Steel (b. 1938), later Lord Baron Steel of Aikwood, who had succeeded Jeremy Thorpe as Leader of the Liberal Party in 1976, was MP for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles.

² Evan Luard (1926–91) was an expert on China who had resigned from the diplomatic service in 1956 in protest at Eden’s Suez policy. Subsequently a Research Fellow at St Anthony’s College, he was Labour MP for Oxford 1966–70 and 1974–9, and Parliamentary Under Secretary at the Foreign Office 1976–9.

¹ He later reverted to the view that the evidence against Bhutto was worthless. See pp. 232–3.

¹ Macvey Napier (1776–1847), solicitor and legal scholar.

² David Laing (1793–1878), antiquary.

³ T-R had described this Edinburgh club in Princes Street to his stepson James (21 July 1966): ‘The New Club has two classes of member. One is the Edinburgh W.S. [Writers to the Signet, viz. lawyers], or business-man (in so far as there is any business in Edinburgh—“that least mercantile of cities”, as Lord Cockburn called it). He is a dull dog, a real Edinburgh citizen, careful, unimaginative, dried-up. The other is the rural laird who only turns up by chance when he is in Edinburgh (whereas your W.S. is there every day).’

⁴ Ludovic Kennedy (1919–2009) had been a post-war undergraduate at Christ Church after wartime service on Royal Navy destroyers. He was a BBC broadcaster of distinction, who wrote books on miscarriages of justice. There was not a blackball system at the New Club, but Kennedy’s candidature there (Dawyck Haig was his seconder) was withdrawn after objections from Edinburgh lawyers resentful of his accounts of police misconduct and judicial prejudice in the case of Patrick Meehan, who had been wrongly convicted of murder in 1969.

¹ Lesley Stowell was Secretary of the Oxford History Faculty.

² John [J. P.] Cooper (1920–78) was a Fellow of All Souls 1948–52 and thereafter Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford. A scholar of passionate erudition, he contributed the appendix ‘The Landed Wealth of the English Peerage under Charles I’ to T-R’s essay on ‘The Gentry’ (1953). Wallace Notestein called him ‘the greatest seventeenth-scholar since C. H. Firth’. According to Raymond Carr, Cooper was the only historian T-R was frightened of.

³ Cooper stopped his car on the road leading from Horton-cum-Studley, the Oxford-shire village where he lived, and suffered a massive coronary. McFarlane died suddenly while walking in Buckinghamshire.