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Ian Jack: David Astor, 2 June 2016
David Astor: A Life in Print
by Jeremy Lewis.
Cape, 400 pp., £25, March 2016,978 0 224 09090 2 Show More
by Jeremy Lewis.
Cape, 400 pp., £25, March 2016,
“... Plymouth and had high hopes of political advancement, but these came crashing down when in 1916 Lloyd George’s coalition offered his father a peerage to reward his philanthropy and his newspapers’ longstanding support of the Conservative cause. Waldorf was furious when his father accepted, because he would have to succeed him as the second Baron ... ”