Aspects of aristocracy : grandeur and decline in modern Britain

Acknowledgements page ix
Introduction: Aspects of Aristocracy 1
PART ONE: PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS 7
The Making of the British Upper Classes 9
Aristocratic Indebtedness in the Nineteenth Century 37
Mobility and Mobility in Modern Britain 55
PART TWO: INDIVIDUALS IN CONTEXT 75
Lord Curzon as Ceremonial Impressario 77
Lord Strickland: Imperial Aristocrat and Aristocratic Imperialist 109
Winston Churchill as an Aristocratic Adventurer 130
PART THREE: THE DYNASTIC PERSPECTIVE 163
The Landowner as Millionaire: The Finances of the Dukes of Devonshire 165
Landowners, Lawyers and Litterateurs: The Cozens-Hardys of Letheringsett 184
Portrait of More Than a Marriage: Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West Revisited 210
Conclusion: Beyond the Country House 242
Appendixes:
A Aristocratic Indebtedness in the Nineteenth Century 249
B The Churchills 252
C The Devonshires 255
D The Cozens-Hardys 267
E The Nicolsons and the Sackville-Wests 271
A Note on Sources 274
Notes 275
Index 310
Photographic Acknowledgements 321