Many of us have a weakness for biographies of the more eccentric, fantastic or rackety Victorians. Trevor-Roper’s hilarious account of Sir Edmund Backhouse is a great favourite. Ian Anstruther’s ...

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There is nothing quite like British baronets; they are not members of the peerage, yet they are definitely members of the upper class. One old definition has it that “a baronet is one who has ceased ...

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Although Britain’s aristocracy no longer enjoys the wealth and status it once possessed, it still inspires a “bizarre fascination”, said Henry Mance in the Financial Times. “Just look at the success ...

John LaConte says his job as a reporter is to investigate claims. That is what led him to write a book about the infamous Sir St. George Gore, better known around the Vail Valley by the misnomer “Lord ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The upper badge around Sir Crispin Agnew's neck is the badge of a Baronet of Nova Scotia granted by King Charles I in 1629.

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The Byzantine notions of Britain’s nobility and class structures can easily confuse a citizen of a republic, even the neighbouring one, so I sought out a cicerone to explain how it all worked. Sir ...