Research Catalog

Title

Well-remembered friends : eulogies on celebrated lives / collected by Angela Huth.

Publication

London : John Murray, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Huth, Angela, 1938-

Description

xiii, 459 pages; 23 cm

Summary

One hundred and ten eulogies of famous Englishmen by other famous Englishmen, from Neville Chamberlain delivered by Winston Churchill on Nov. 13, 1940, to Hugo Young delivered by Alan Rusbridger, on Nov. 20, 2003.

Subject

• Eulogies
• Praise
• eulogies (documents)
• Praise
• Eulogies

Genre/Form

• eulogies (documents)
• Eulogies
• Eulogies.
• Éloges.

Contents

1. Neville Chamberlain / Winston Churchill -- 2. Augustus John / David Cecil -- 3. Vivien Leigh / John Gielgud -- 4. Harold Nicolson / John Sparrow -- 5. Maurice Bowra / Isaiah Berlin -- 6. Uffa Fox / Max Aitken -- 7. W. H. Auden / Stephen Spender -- 8. H. E. Bates / Robert Lusty -- 9. Neville Cardus / Alan Gibson -- 10. Patrick Kinross / John Betjeman -- 11. Edith Evans / Bryan Forbes -- 12. John Fowler / James Lees-Milne -- 13. Henry Williamson / Ted Hughes -- 14. Ginger Dennistoun / John Oaksey -- 15. Reynolds Stone / Iris Murdoch -- 16. Lord Louis Mountbatten HRH / Prince of Wales -- 17. Cecil Beaton / Richard Buckle -- 18. Ann Fleming / Lord Annan -- 19. Rebecca West / Bernard Levin -- 20. Alasdair Clayre / David Pryce-Jones -- 21. J. B. Priestley / Diana Collins -- 22. Charles Douglas-Home / Lord Home of the Hirsel -- 23. Charles Douglas-Home / Edward Cazalet -- 24. Diana Cooper / Nigel Ryan -- 25. Henry Moore / Stephen Spender -- 26. Russell Harty / Alan Bennett -- 27. Frederick Ashton / Margot Fonteyn de Arias -- 28. John Howard / Elizabeth Jane Howard -- 29. Laurence Olivier / Alec Guinness -- 30. George Gale / Paul Johnson -- 31. Angus Wilson / Margaret Drabble -- 32. Sophie Lichfield / David Dimbleby -- 33. Sophie Lichfield / Jilly Cooper -- 34. Frankie Howerd / Barry Cryer -- 35. William Douglas-Home / Brian Johnston -- 36. Kenneth Macmillan / Ninette de Valois -- 37. Kenneth Macmillan / Nicholas Hytner -- 38. Freya Stark / Colin Thubron -- 39. John Murray / Patrick Leigh Fermor -- 40. Anthony Burgess / William Boyd -- 41. Robin Cavendish / Right Reverend Lord Runcie -- 42. Mark Bonham Carter / Lord Jenkins -- 43. Kathleen Tynan / Angela Huth -- 44. Angus Macintyre / Ben Macintyre -- 45. Peter Cook / Alan Bennett -- 46. Fred Warner / Antonia Fraser -- 47. Fred Warner / Robert Kee -- 48. Molly Keane / James Roose-Evans -- 49. Richard Cobb / Maurice Keen -- 50. Kingsley Amis / Martin Amis -- 51. Nico Colchester / Robin Lane Fox -- 52. Denis Compton / J. J. Warr -- 53. Isaiah Berlin / Lord Annan -- 54. James Lees-Milne / Nigel Nicolson -- 55. Molly Baring / Candida Lycett Green -- 56. John Wells / Richard Ingrams -- 57. Daniel Massey / Ronald Harwood -- 58. Ted Hughes / Seamus Heaney -- 59. John Hunt / George Band -- 60. Nicholas Budgen / Charles Moore -- 61. Quentin Crewe / Bamber Gascoigne -- 62. William Brown / Ronald Blythe -- 63. Bobby Corbett / Alexander McEwen -- 64. Ernie Wise / Michael Grade -- 65. George Clive / Thomas Pakenham -- 66. Ted Hughes / Seamus Heaney -- 67. Yehudi Menuhin / George Steiner -- 68. Linford Cazenove / Julian Fellowes -- 69. William Whitelaw / Lord Carrington -- 70. Hugh Casson / John Julius Norwich -- 71. Sonia Heathcoat-Amory / Ludovic Kennedy -- 72. Malcolm Bradbury / David Lodge -- 73. Stanley Matthews / Jimmy Armfield -- 74. Anthony Powell / Hugh Massingberd -- 75. Martin Charteris / Eric Anderson -- 76. John Morgan / Nicholas Coleridge -- 77. Derek Hill / Grey Gowrie -- 78. Kelpie Buchanan / Adrian House -- 79. Auberon Waugh / Patrick Marnham -- 80. Simon Phipps / David Wilcox -- 81. Ruby Ludlow / Nicholas Baring -- 82. John Diamond / Dominic Lawson -- 83. Colin Cowdrey / John Major -- 84. Anthony Storr / Kay Jamison -- 85. Lalage Wakefield / Maximilian Wakefield -- 86. Frank Longford / Cormac Murphy O'Connor -- 87. Keith Beaumont / David Palmer -- 88. Peter Townend / Nicholas Coleridge -- 89. Teddy Hall / John Smith -- 90. Nigel Hawthorne / Nicholas Hytner -- 91. Elizabeth Longford / Nicholas Henderson -- 92. Christopher Bowerbank / Alan Jenkins -- 93. Dorothy Tutin / Patrick Garland -- 94. Peter Parker / Richard Eyre -- 95. Peter Parker / Anonymous -- 96. John Miller / John le Carre -- 97. John Thaw / Tom Courtenay -- 98. Dudley Moore / Eric Sykes -- 99. Dudley Moore / Michael Parkinson -- 100. Karel Reisz / Harold Pinter -- 101. Noel Davis / Gyles Brandreth -- 102. Anne Bernstein / Lord Cavendish -- 103. Hugh Trevor-Roper / James Howard-Johnston -- 104. Hardy Amies / Roy Strong -- 105. Lynn Chadwick / Rungwe Kingdon -- 106. Roy Jenkins / Giles Radice -- 107. Diana Collins / Ronald Blythe -- 108. Hardy Amies / Selina Hastings -- 109. Paul Getty / Christopher Gibbs -- 110. Hugo Young / Alan Rusbridger

ISBN

• 0719564875
• 9780719564871

LCCN

2005412766

OCLC

• ocm56661591
• 56661591
• SCSB-14108207

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library