{"footnote":"\u003Cp\u003E  Karl Leyser was born in D\u0026uuml;sseldorf in 1920 and sent by hit parents to England in 1936, when he entered St Paul\u0026rsquo;s School. He won a demyship to Magdalen and was briefly McFarlane\u0026rsquo;s pupil before being  interned on the Isle of Man. Eventually he was released to join the Pioneer Corps, ending up as an officer in the Black Watch. At the time of McFarlane\u0026rsquo;s letter, he was awaiting embarkation for  Normandy. After the war he was elected a fellow of Magdalen and in 1984 was appointed Chichele Professor of Medieval History at All Souls. He died in 1992.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}