BANKER, TRAITOR, SCAPEGOAT, SPY?
The Rt Hon Sir Edgar Speyer, Bart, PC aet. 51
(William Orpen, 1914)
The portrait was exhibited at the Royal Academy
Summer Exhibition, 1914
Scapegoat, Spy?
The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer
An Episode of The Great War
With a Foreword by Sir Louis Blom-Cooper, Qc
First published in Great Britain in 2013 by
Haus Publishing Ltd
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Copyright © Antony Lentin, 2013
Foreword copyright © Sir Louis Blom-Cooper, 2013
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ebook ISBN 978-1-908323-17-0
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in memoriam
Roger Asbury (4/10/1920–11/03/2011)
happy warrior 1939–1945
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance
ANTONY LENTIN is a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Barrister. Formerly a Professor of History and Law Tutor at the Open University, he is the author of Guilt at Versailles: Lloyd George and the Pre-History of Appeasement (1985), Lloyd George and the Lost Peace (2001), The Last Political Law Lord: Lord Sumner (1859–1934) (2009) and General Smuts (2010). He has published widely on 18th-century Russia and has edited The Odes of Horace for Wordsworth Classics.