Uncle William
E.S. Turner, 13 June 1991
The Passing of Barchester: A Real-Life Version of Trollop
by Clive Dewey.
Hambledon, 199 pp., £14.95, April 1991,1 85285 039 6 Show More
by Clive Dewey.
Hambledon, 199 pp., £14.95, April 1991,
“... The Duke of Wellington, defending the Lord Chancellor of Ireland for distributing lucrative posts among his family, complained of the ‘senseless outcry against public men for not having overlooked the ties of blood and Nature in dispensing the patronage of office’. Nepotism might offend radicals and the authors of denunciatory Black Books, but it was a fact of public life, and nowhere was the practice more honoured than in the Church of England ... ”