Dilke (61 page)

⁷
1853–1938. Military correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian
, 1882–92, and of the
Morning Post
, 1895 1914. Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford from 1909.

⁸
In 1916 Lord Knollys (as he had then become) wrote to Miss Gertrude Tuckwell requesting that this letter should not be published in the biography of Dilke on which she was working. “I do not think that it would be quite fair to the memory of King Edward,” he argued, “that the line which he took in private in regard to Sir Charles' case should be made public when the majority of people (I imagine I am correct in saying this) adopted a totally different attitude.” (D.P. 43967, 271.) It is difficult to believe that the letter would have been very damaging forty years ago, and it is clearly not so to-day.

¹
Minister at the Baptist Chapel in Praed Street, Paddington, President of the Baptist World Alliance, and at the time the recognised leader of militant Nonconformity in England.

²
J. W. Hills, Conservative M.P. for Durham City.

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