An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (55 page)

34
. Lord Kilmuir,
Political Adventure
(1964), pp. 158–59.

35
. William Rees-Mogg, ‘The Selection of Parliamentary Candidates’,
Political Quarterly
, 30 (1959), p. 218 (Gerald Nabarro did not, at this time, describe himself as Jewish); Sir Julian Critchley,
A Bag of Boiled Sweets
(1994), p. 69.

36
. Christopher Hollis, ‘Government by Etonians’,
Spectator
, 4 January 1957, p. 10; Critchley,
Boiled Sweets
, p. 71.

37
. Henry Kerby, ‘Government by Etonians’,
Spectator
, 18 January 1957, p. 83.

38
. Angus Maude, ‘Tory Democracy at Westminster’,
Spectator
, 26 April 1957, p. 540.

39
. C. H. P. Mayo,
Reminiscences of a Harrow Master
(1928), pp. 150–51; Anthony Sampson,
Anatomy of Britain
(1962), p. 52; Earl Ferrers,
Whatever Next?
(2011), p. 146.

40
. Diary of Earl Winterton, 1 August 1951, Winterton papers 54.

41
. Critchley,
Boiled Sweets
, p. 74; Anthony Wedgwood Benn, ‘The Tory Party from the Outside’,
National Review
, 149 (December 1957), p. 267.

42
. Diary of Earl Winterton, 24 June 1959, Winterton papers 56.

43
. Critchley,
Boiled Sweets
, p. 69; Humphry Berkeley,
Crossing the Floor
(1972), p. 83.

44
. Harold Macmillan to Michael Fraser, 17 February 1957, NA PREM 11/1816.

45
. ‘A Shade Too Optimistic?’,
Bedfordshire Times and Standard
, 26 July 1957, p. 8.

46
. Thorpe,
Supermac
, p. 392; Quentin Skinner, ‘The Queen, the Workers, the Jews’,
London Review of Books
, 22 September 2011, p. 4.

47
. Peter Kennerley, ‘They Call it “Britain’s Sin City”,’
Sunday Pictorial
, 10 May 1959, p. 22.

48
. Louis Blom-Cooper, ‘Prostitution: a Socio-Legal Comment on the Case of Dr Ward’,
British Journal of Sociology
, 15 (March 1964), p. 70; Viscount Hailsham QC, ‘Homosexuality and Society’, in Tudor Rees and Harley Usill (eds),
They Stand Apart
(1955), pp. 21–2,24–6, 28–9.

49
. Geoffrey Lewis,
Lord Hailsham
(1997), pp. 181–82.

50
. ‘Candidates State Their Cases as the Election Enters its Final Stage’,
Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
, 2 October 1959, p. 1.

51
. Hugh Trevor-Roper to Nicolas Gage, 24 March 1959, Gage papers, Firle; Albert Finney, ‘Making Them Feel’,
Twentieth Century
, 169 (February 1961), p. 141; Anthony Fell, ‘The British in Danger of Slavery’,
Time & Tide
, 30 August 1962, p. 9.

52
. Michael Wharton, ‘Beyond a Joke’,
Twentieth Century
, 169 (July 1961), pp. 13–14; Bernard Levin, ‘Violence at Blackpool’,
Spectator
, 17 October 1958, pp. 506–07; compare the pompous bluster of Lord Hailsham, ‘Incidents at Blackpool’,
The Times
, 18 October 1958, p. 7e.

53
. Bernard Williams, ‘Fairlie, the Establishment, and the BBC’,
Encounter
, 13 (November 1959), pp. 64–5; Henry Fairlie, ‘The BBC – Voice of the Establishment’,
Encounter
, 13 (August 1959), p. 13.

54
. Sir David Cannadine, ‘John Harold Plumb’,
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy
,
III
(2004), p. 286 and seriatim; J. H. Plumb, ‘Hall of Fame’,
Spectator
, 16 March 1962, p. 339.

55
. R. H. S. Crossman, ‘Power and Personalia’,
New Statesman
, 13 July 1962, p. 49.

56
. Simon Raven, ‘The Listener’s Book Chronicle’,
Listener
, 12 July 1962, p. 69.

57
. Malcolm Bradbury, ‘The New Language of Morals’,
Twentieth Century
, 172 (summer 1963), pp. 81–2.

Two: War Minister

1
.
Dame Rebecca West,
The Meaning of Treason
(1965), p. 295; John Galsworthy,
Another Sheaf
(1919), pp. 91–3; Giles Playfair,
My Father’s Son
(1937), pp. 71–2.

2
. Christopher Tyerman,
A History of Harrow School 1324–1991
(2000), p. 442.

3
. Playfair,
My Father’s Son
, p. 113.

4
. Sir Cyril Norwood,
The English Tradition of Education
(1929), pp. 71, 73, 75, 76, 228; Brian Glanville, ‘Laggards in the Sex War’,
Truth
, 19 April 1957, 157, pp. 435–36.

5
. Geoffrey Gorer, ‘This is the English – A Race Torn by Inner Conflicts’,
The People
, 30 September 1951, p. 4.

6
. Hugh Trevor-Roper,
Wartime Journals
(2011), p. 47; Hugh Trevor-Roper to David Stephens, 10 February 1960, quoted Alex Danchev,
Oliver Franks
(1993), p. 152; John Mortimer,
Clinging to the Wreckage
(1982), p. 57; J. Mordaunt Crook,
Brasenose
(2008), p. 370; David Profumo,
Bringing the House Down
(2006), p. 66.

7
. Profumo,
House Down
, p. 77.

8
. Cyril Ray, ‘The Cinema’,
Spectator
, 182 (24 June 1949), p. 853; Virginia Graham, ‘Cinema’,
Spectator
, 188 (29 February 1952), pp. 260–61.

9
. Profumo,
House Down
, p. 53.

10
. Boyd-Carpenter,
Way of Life
, p. 108.

11
. ‘15 Guests at Wedding of MP and Actress’,
Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
, 7 January 1955, p. 1.

12
. John Whiting, ‘From My Diary’,
Twentieth Century
, 169 (February 1961), p. 198.

13
. ‘Bunny, Flockie and Co.’,
New Statesman
, 51 (26 May 1956), p. 588.

14
. James Morris, ‘Patriotism’,
Encounter
, 18 (January 1962), p. 17.

15
. Macmillan diary, 7 January 1959, Macmillan dep d 34, f 33, Bodleian; Profumo,
House Down
, p. 139; Sir Colin Coote,
Editorial
(1965), p. 284.

16
. Murphy,
Lennox-Boyd
, p. 110; Profumo,
House Down
, pp. 151–2.

17
. John Charnley,
Churchill
(1993), p. 203; Murphy,
Lennox-Boyd
, p. 164.

18
. Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries
, I, p. 580; Macmillan diary, 8 April 1957, Macmillan dep d 28, f 124, Bodleian.

19
. Profumo,
House Down
, p. 154.

20
. ‘Only Five Nights to Go’,
Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
, 2 October 1959, p. 1.

21
. Margaret Stacey,
Tradition and Change: a Study of Banbury
(1960), pp. 8–9.

22
. Stacey,
Tradition and Change
, p. 9.

23
. Shirley Green,
Rachman
(1979), p. 23.

24
. Maurice Richardson, ‘Television Clowns’,
Twentieth Century
, 169 (July 1961), p. 88.

25
. Harold Macmillan,
Winds of Change
(1966), p. 100; Berkeley,
Crossing the Floor
, pp. 81–2; Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries
,
II
, p. 651.

26
. Maurice Collis,
The Journey Up
(1970), p. 193; Robert Hardman,
Our Queen
(2011),
p. 241.

27
. Wilfred Fienburgh,
No Love for Johnnie
(1959), p. 114.

28
. Brian Sewell,
Outsider
(2011), p. 72; ‘Fall Out! 11 Forces men can’t be MPs’,
Daily Express
, 4 March 1963, p. 7; ‘Carry On Sergeant!’,
Daily Express
, 5 March 1963, p. 1.

29
. Pat Jalland,
Death in War and Peace: A History of Loss and Grief in England, 1914–1970
(2010), pp. 172–73.

30
. Ray Gosling,
Sum Total
(1962), pp. 22, 34.

31
. John Braine, ‘The Month’,
Twentieth Century
, 163 (February 1958), pp. 169–70.

32
. Frederic Raphael,
Personal Terms
(2001), pp. 97–8.

Three: Lord

1
.
Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton, 25 January 1893 and 15 October 1893, BL Add ms 48659, 48661; Diary of Marquess of Lincolnshire, 11 July 1895 and 30 May 1896, Bodleian.

2
. Diary of Marquess of Lincolnshire, 4 November 1897 and 13 January 1899, Bodleian.

3
. Diary of Marquess of Lincolnshire, 7 July 1900, Bodleian; Derek Wilson,
The Astors 1763–1992
(1993), pp. 133, 177.