¹ Palmer had a successful career as a journalist, especially as Public Policy Editor for the Sunday Telegraph 1998–2013. He is now a speech-writer for the Home Secretary, Theresa May.

² Norman Tebbit (b. 1931), Baron Tebbit, a member of the Thatcher Cabinet 1981–7, whose election to the Beefsteak was resisted by many of its members including T-R.

³ ‘Mean, petty-minded’.

¹ A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad. The first line should read, ‘When the bells justle in the tower’.

² ‘The tragic sense of life’.

¹ There was antipathy between T-R and Edward Norman (b. 1938), Dean of Peterhouse 1971–88.

² Princes and Artists (1976).

³ ‘The Emperor Maximilian I, as Patron of the Arts’, in Renaissance Essays (1985).