Robert Stewart

Robert Stewart is the author of two books on the early history of the Conservative Party, The Politics of Protection and The Foundation of the Conservative Party 1830-1867, and of a life of Henry Brougham.

Letter

Unfair to sport

3 September 1987

SIR: Normally the remark that the love of sport is an ‘adolescent enthusiasm’ would be worthy of no attention. The opinion, stupid though it is, is a commonplace among the literati. But that it should appear in so attentive a piece as Donald Mitchell’s (LRB, 3 September) and be made in rebuke of so healthy a man as Hans Keller was invites reply.Of sport three defences (that it should need defence!)...

Pieces about Robert Stewart in the LRB

Misunderstandings

J.H. Burns, 20 March 1986

Only in the imagination of the authors of 1066 and All That was there ever a custom of executing public men ‘for being left over from the last reign’. Had such a custom prevailed...

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