Earls’ Sons
E.S. Turner, 20 October 1983
The Man who was Greenmantle: A Biography of Aubrey Herbert
by Margaret FitzHerbert.
Murray, 250 pp., £15, September 1983,0 7195 4067 4 Show More
by Margaret FitzHerbert.
Murray, 250 pp., £15, September 1983,
A Classic Connection
by Michael Seth-Smith.
Secker, 184 pp., £9.95, September 1983,0 436 44705 3 Show More
by Michael Seth-Smith.
Secker, 184 pp., £9.95, September 1983,
“... be with you, Balliol men!’ Was Aubrey Herbert, this human plum, ever ripe enough to be king of Albania, a country which twice offered him the throne? After finishing Margaret FitzHerbert’s excellent book the reader may be in two minds; at least King Aubrey would have wielded the sceptre with more panache than ... ”