John Martin Robinson

Sir Vavasour Firebrace

The Baronets’ Champion: Sir Richard Broun’s Campaigns for the Privileges of the Baronetage

By Ian Anstruther

Haggerston Press 141pp £18.95 order from our bookshop

Many of us have a weakness for biographies of the more eccentric, fantastic or rackety Victorians. Trevor-Roper’s hilarious account of Sir Edmund Backhouse is a great favourite. Ian Anstruther’s biography of Oscar Browning, that naughty public-school master, is another, while his account of the Eglinton Tournament in the Knight and the Umbrella has become a cult book. Now he has produced a biography of the original of Disraeli’s Sir Vavasour Firebrace in Sybil: Sir Richard Broun, Victorian champion of the baronets against the plebeians.

Literary Review

Sep 2006

John Martin Robinson

Notes to Shelf

Keeping Up Appearances

Bringing The House Down

Of Arms and Architecture

Urban Wasteland

By Religious Design

Enchanted Ground

John Martin Robinson

Sir Vavasour Firebrace

The Baronets’ Champion: Sir Richard Broun’s Campaigns for the Privileges of the Baronetage

By Ian Anstruther

Haggerston Press 141pp £18.95 order from our bookshop

Sep 2006

Notes to Shelf

Keeping Up Appearances

Bringing The House Down

Of Arms and Architecture

Urban Wasteland

By Religious Design

Enchanted Ground

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