Acknowledgements

Thanks and acknowledgements are due to Mr John Abbott; Mr Hugo Beit; Miss Naomi Boneham (Thomas H Manning Polar Archives, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge); The Bodleian Library, Oxford and Mr Christopher Osborn (Margot Asquith Papers); The British Library (Lord Reading Papers); Mr David Cane; Mr Colin Harris (Bodleian Library, Oxford); to Mr George Liebmann for information on Edgar and James Speyer; Professor Margaret Macmillan for facilitating a stay at St Antony’s College, Oxford, under a ‘twinning’ agreement with Wolfson College, Cambridge; Mrs Sarah Maspero (Hartley Library, University of Southampton); Professor James Moore; Mr David Murrell and Ms Susan Smith (Sea Marge Hotel, Overstrand); the National Archives, Kew (Home Office and Treasury Solicitor’s Papers); Mrs Natalie O’Dell for information on the Orpen portrait of Edgar Speyer; Mr Arnold Rosen; Mr Peter Sigler; Ms Katalin Sinkovics (Killik & Co); Ms Jennifer Thorp (New College, Oxford); Mrs Gabrielle Thorp (for her brief but valuable comments on Leonora Speyer, her grandmother); Mr David Watson; Mr W S Robinson and Dr Theo Shulte. Finally I must record my gratitude to Dr Leanne Langley for indicating some useful sources of information and for setting me right on several matters of fact; to Ellie Shillito, of Haus, for her editorial solicitude; to Sir Louis Blom-Cooper for his generous foreword; above all to Dr Philip Webb of the Cities Centre, University of Toronto, for his patience, meticulous attention and informed and expert suggestions. For errors and misapprehensions responsibility is of course entirely mine.