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FOCUS EXTRA: Save our toffs! Jennifer's Diary is to leave Harpers via the trademan's entrance. Lord B disports with commoners in a jungle. Ye gads, is it all over for polite society? By Sholto Byrnes
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`A fully equipped duke," thundered David Lloyd George nearly 100
years ago, "costs as much to keep as two Dreadnoughts - and they are
just as great a terror."
Now, it seems, the highest ranks of the nobility are not
considered dangerous enough even to merit inclusion in Harpers &
Queen. The magazine, traditionally more "country" than the flashier,
"towny" Tatler, is to drop "Jennifer's Diary", the column in which
the slightest doings of the upper classes have been chronicled with
slavish sycophancy for 60 years.
In truth, the receding chinlines possessed by those with
impeccable bloodlines ...
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ON THE MOVE <261B>.(Robinia Care appointed Andrew Nicholson)(Joseph Rowntree Foundation appointed Sir William Utting and Andrew Barnett)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Community Care
; ...provider Robinia Care has appointed Andrew Nicholson (left) as group corporate development director. Nicholson was previously corporate finance manager at Rothschilds bank. Sir William Utting has become chair of the Joseph...
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A complex gift for simplicity William Nicholson was an artist of great talents - why then is he so underrated? asks Paul Johnson
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; William Nicholson by Sanford Schwartz Yale...as a young collector, Sir William Nicholson would be high on my list...disturbing story about Nicholson's son Ben, who became...was away in California, William stole his son's girlfriend...
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The son is my undoing William Nicholson's artistic reputation faded while his son's thrived. But there were Oedipal sources for this battle for supremacy, reveals Sarah Jane Checkland
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...pictures?" The year was 1935 and Sir William Nicholson, the famous society portraitist...the general consensus was that William's refined, painterly style...years in the doldrums, William Nicholson's work is about to make a dramatic...
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The alphabet man The painter and printmaker William Nicholson has long been eclipsed by his more famous son, the abstract artist Ben. But in his time he was a man of substance: a celebrated society portraitist, friend of the great and good, he even taught Winston Churchill to paint.
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; In 1887, aged 15, William Nicholson sold a painting for five pounds...size of a small handkerchief. Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949) was, as an artist...one spell, a Conservative MP. William left school early to study at...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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A colourful family; When Barbara Hepworth married Ben Nicholson, she sealed the Nicholson clan's fate as the first family of British art. And four generations of scandal, infighting and rivalry haven't diluted the artistic gene, discovers Godfrey Barker Right: Ben Nicholson with Barbara Hepworth on a boat in Henley in the early Thirties.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ...to one man: Ben Nicholson's father, Sir William. The top-hatted...the first show of Sir William Nicholson since 1942 opens...turn up,' says Tim Nicholson, son of Kit, Ben...antagonistic relationship of William and Ben has been...
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LIVING WILL THE ARTS: VISUAL ART THE ARTS: VISUAL ART A BEN NICHOLSON EXHIBITION BEGAN WITH A WIFE'S BEQUEST
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...good collection of work by the people around Nicholson his first wife Winifred Nicholson, his second wife Barbara Hepworth, and...herself. We've also got works by his father Sir William Nicholson, his mother, and his uncle James Pryde...
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Here and there Items from Sir Ralph Richardson's collection for auction
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...great English actor, Sir John Gielgud, Sotheby...mementos which belonged to Sir John's great friend...the English painter Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949), and...GBP 60,000. Another Nicholson painting shows Rottingdean...
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Theatrical friends turn out to see Sir John Gielgud's mementos sold for charity
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Panama hat belonging to Sir John Gielgud, sold with...the many famous friends Sir John made over the years...the audience, including Sir Donald Sinden and Lord...Master painting by Sir William Nicholson - which fetched more than...
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LETTERS: Emma Nicholson's familial precedent
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; From Mr Robert Cook Sir: It is interesting to compare Emma Nicholson's comments on changes...her great-grandfather, William Nicholson, Liberal MP for Petersfield...interesting to see whether Ms Nicholson modifies her policy, as...
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 "Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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No Sir... he's not worth pounds 3m a year.(Mailbox)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
; ...accepts it is guilty of sheer greed. Sir Robin Nicholson, chairman of BP's remuneration...independent advisers recommended that Sir Robin's pay went up too? - John...Blind Date obviously asked Prince William to appear to boost ratings (Sunday...
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