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122. Jill Franklin, The Gentleman’s Country House and its Plan (1981), p. 91 (afterwards Franklin); Kerr, p. 294 (afterwards Kerr).
123. Kerr, p. 202.
124. Franklin, p. 92.
125. Franklin, p. 93.
126. Kerr, p. 221.
127. Franklin, p. 95; Kerr, p. 224.
128. Sambrook, A Country House at Work, p. 103.
129. Kerr, p. 224.
130. Hardyment, pp. 50–61.
131. Kerr, pp. 228–9.
132. Kerr, p. 231.
133. Hardyment, pp. 64–7.
134. Franklin, p. 95.
135. Franklin, p. 95.
136. Franklin, p. 101.
137. Shared bedrooms were the norm for under servants; see the illustration of the dormitory at Mamhead.
138. Michael Trinick, Lanhydrock, revised edition (1992), pp. 14–18.
139. Trinick, p. 22.
140. Trinick, pp. 22–30.
141. Hardyment, p. 25.
142. Mark Girouard, The Victorian Country House (1979), p. 27.
143. Earl and Countess of Aberdeen, We Twa: Reminiscences of Lord and Lady Aberdeen, vol. 2 (1929), pp. 1–10 (afterwards Aberdeen).
144. Aberdeen, p. 2.
145. Aberdeen, p. 2.
146. Aberdeen, p. 5.
147. Aberdeen, p. 7.
148. Aberdeen, p. 10.
149. H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay (1964), pp. 12–13.
Chapter 7: In Retreat from a Golden Age
1. Pamela Horn, Life Below Stairs in the Twentieth Century (2003), p. 12.
2. Horn, Rise and Fall, p. 171; Gerard, Country House Life, pp. 282–3.
3. Horn, Rise and Fall, p. 185.
4. Horn, Life Below Stairs, p. 11.
5. Horn, Life Below Stairs, p. 10.
6. Frederick Gorst, Carriages and Kings (1956), pp. 126–7 (afterwards Gorst).
7. Gorst, p. 136.
8. Gorst, p. 137.
9. Gorst, p. 136.
10. Gorst, pp. 128–9.
11. Gorst, p. 149.
12. Gorst, p. 151.
13. Gorst, pp. 132–3.
14. Gorst, p. 133.
15. Gorst, p. 133.
16. Gorst, p. 133.
17. Gorst, pp. 132–3.
18. Gorst, p. 134.
19. Gorst, p. 134.
20. Gorst, p. 141.
21. Gorst, pp. 159–60.
22. Gorst, p. 13.
23. Gorst, p. 130.
24. Story told by the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire in an interview with the author, 9 January 2009.
25. Rosina Harrison (ed.), Gentlemen’s Gentlemen (1978), pp. 26–7.
26. Catherine Bailey, Black Diamonds (2007), pp. 6–7.
27. Michael Hall, Waddesdon Manor: The Heritage of a Rothschild House (2002), pp. 204–10 (afterwards Hall).
28. Hall, pp. 194–210.
29. Hall, pp. 224–5.
30. Hall, pp. 230–1.
31. Interview with Mr Gautier, conducted by the National Trust in June 1992, typescript in the Waddesdon Collection.
32. Letter in the Waddeson Collection, dated 20 November 1917.
33. Notes from his grandson, John Macleod.
34. Notes from John Macleod.
35. Horn, Life Below Stairs, pp. 117–18.
36. Tom Turner, Memoirs of a Gamekeeper (1954), pp. 17–32 and 51–61.
37. Jonathan Ruffer, The Big Shots (1978), p. 57.
38. Merlin Waterson (ed.), The Country House Remembered: Recollections of Life Between the Wars (1985), p. 88.
39. Merlin Waterson (ed.), The Country House Remembered, p. 88.
40. Herman Muthesius, The English House (1904–5), edited and translated by Dennis Sharp, republished by Frances Lincoln in 2007, vol. II, pp. 61–2 (afterwards Muthesius).
41. Muthesius, II, p. 62.
42. Muthesius, II, p. 63.
43. Muthesius, II, p. 74.
44. Muthesius, II, p. 73.
45. Clive Aslet, The Last Country Houses (1982), p. 99 (afterwards Aslet).
46. Seen on a visit to Waddesdon Manor.
47. National Trust guidebook, Castle Drogo (1995), pp. 20–3.
48. Hardyment, p. 44.
49. Aslet, pp. 105–6.
50. Lady Diana Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes, first published 1954 (1982), pp. 34–5.
51. Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes, p. 35.
52. Harrison (ed.), Gentlemen’s Gentlemen, p. 33.
53. Devonshire, The House, p. 58.
54. Fingall, pp. 115–16.
55. Horn, Life Below Stairs, p. 23.
56. Horn, Life Below Stairs, p. 23.
57. Horn, Life Below Stairs, pp. 23–4.
58. Letter from John Whittley, kept at Sudeley Castle; my thanks to