The China Journals by Trevor-Roper Hugh; Davenport-Hines Richard;

Author:Trevor-Roper, Hugh; Davenport-Hines, Richard;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

1 Frank Giles (b. 1919), Foreign Editor of the Sunday Times 1961–77 and Editor 1981–83.

2 The address of SACU’s London office.

3 Richard Thistlethwaite (1917–1985) was educated at Bootham, the Quaker boarding-school in York, before matriculation in 1935 at the Queen’s College, Oxford, where he was Lady Elizabeth Hastings Scholar and obtained a first in PPE in 1938. He was awarded a Laming Travelling Fellow at Queen’s in 1938. He served as a District Security Officer in Palestine during the 1940s; then as the Security Service’s first liaison officer in Washington DC; was apparently posted to Singapore, 1955–59; then headed its Anti-Communist section in London or was head of operations in London. Elected to the Athenaeum in 1964, many of his letters were written on club notepaper, and T-R sent his replies to Thistlethwaite there. After retiring from MI5, Thistlethwaite was assistant registrar of the General Medical Council, 1971–72.

4 Sir Dick White (1906–1993), Director General of the Security Service (MI5), 1953–56 and of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), 1956–68.

5 Joan Robinson (1903–1983) studied economics at Girton College, Cambridge, where she came under the Marxist influence of Maurice Dobb. Lecturer in the economics faculty at Cambridge, 1937; elected a fellow of Newnham College, 1962; professor and fellow of Girton College, 1965; the first woman to become an honorary fellow of King’s College, 1979. The Nobel economics laureates Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz both encountered her in Cambridge in the mid-1960s: Sen found her ‘brilliant, but vigorously intolerant’; Stiglitz, who was her pupil for one ‘tumultuous’ term in 1965, found that she did not brook contradiction.

6 Valerie Pearl (1926–2016) was daughter of a Labour MP, and a doctoral student of Christopher Hill’s. T-R helped her to recast her dissertation into her first book, London and the Outbreak of the Puritan Revolution: city government and national politics, 1625–43 (1961). In the mid-1960s she was a lecturer at Somerville, but was not appointed to a fellowship because of her insistence on living, for family reasons, in Barnet rather than Oxford. She was a frequent correspondent of T-R’s, co-editor of the festschrift presented to him in 1981, and ended her career as principal of a Cambridge college.

7 Peter Swann (1921–1997) established the Department of Eastern Art within the Ashmolean Museum in 1963, and was responsible for buying major works of Chinese art before the Cultural Revolution.

8 Joan Vickers (1907–1994) was elder daughter of Winston Churchill’s stockbroker. She trained as a Norland nanny, rode well to hounds, and when she wanted to go into politics sought Churchill’s advice. He advised her to wear a pretty hat and to join the London County Council. She did both. After defeating Michael Foot at Plymouth, Devonport in 1955 by 100 votes, she held that marginal constituency until, after boundary changes, David Owen ousted her in 1974. She sat in the House of Lords 1975–90. A formidable figure, the only woman of her generation to speak in Commons debates on the armed forces, she owed her successes to determination rather than charm.

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