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59. Horn, Life Below Stairs, p. 25.
60. From the diary of James Stevenson of Braidwood, Lanarkshire, 6 November 1915, with thanks to Hew Stevenson for identifying these passages, and James Stevenson-Hamilton for permission to use them.
61. 2 June 1917, from the diary of Colonel James Stevenson.
62. 6 March 1924, from the diary of Colonel James Stevenson.
63. Aslet, p. 99.
64. Horn, Life Below Stairs, p. 36.
65. Lanceley, p. 155.
66. Lanceley, pp. 155–6.
67. Lanceley, pp. 157–9.
68. Horne, p. 9.
69. Horne, p. 13.
70. Horne, p. 109.
71. Horne, p. 263.
72. Horn, Life Below Stairs, p. 25.
73. Horn, Life Below Stairs, p. 25.
74. Horn, Life Below Stairs, p. 42.
75. Horn, Life Below Stairs, p. 36.
76. Frank Dawes, Not in Front of the Servants (1973), p. 147.
77. Gorden Grimmett in Harrison (ed.), Gentlemen’s Gentlemen, p. 26.
78. Harrison (ed), Gentlemen’s Gentlemen, pp. 33–5.
79. Harrison (ed), Gentlemen’s Gentlemen, pp. 17–18.
80. Charles Smith, Fifty years with Mounbatten (1980), pp. 17–19.
81. Charles Smith, p. 18.
82. Charles Smith, p. 19.
83. Devonshire, The House, pp. 55–7.
84. Devonshire, The House, pp. 55–7.
85. Rosina Harrison, Rose: My Life in Service (1975), pp. 110–11.
86. Harrison, My Life, pp. 128–9.
87. Mrs Davidson, typescript of 1971 interview with James Dugdale, now Lord Crathorne; quoted with kind permission.
88. Mrs Davidson (1971).
89. Mrs Davidson (1971).
90. Waterson (ed.), The Country House Remembered, p. 195.
91. Memoirs of Mrs Jean Hibbert (afterwards Hibbert), typescript courtesy of the Trustees of the Goodwood Collection, p. 67.
92. Hibbert, p. 68.
93. Hibbert, p. 69.
94. Hibbert, p. 69.
95. Hibbert, p. 71.
96. Hibbert, p. 71.
97. Hibbert, pp. 71–2.
98. Hibbert, p. 81.
99. John Burnett, Useful Toil (1975), pp. 220–1 (afterwards Burnett).
100. Burnett, p. 223.
101. Burnett, p. 224.
102. Burnett, p. 224.
103. Burnett, pp. 225–6.
104. Burnett, pp. 225–6.
105. Burnett, pp. 238–41.
106. Harrison, My Life, pp. 32–4.
107. Harrison, My Life, p. 53.
108. Harrison, My Life, p. 84.
109. Harrison, My Life, p. 84.
110. Harrison, My Life, p. 87.
111. Philip Ziegler, Osbert Sitwell (1998), p. 12.
112. Osbert Sitwell, Cruel Month (1977), p. 92 (afterwards Sitwell).
113. Sitwell, p. 92.
114. Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life (2004), p. 22.
115. P.G. Wodehouse, Money in the Bank (1942).
116. Lavinia Smiley, A Nice Clean Plate (1981), pp. 6–12 and 32, and 70–72.
117. Smiley, p. 12.
118. Waterson (ed.), Country House Remembered, p. 205.
119. Sir John Leslie, Bt, interview with the author, May 2008, and Mark Bence-Jones, Life in the Irish Country House (1996), pp. 69–71.
120. The Hon. Mrs Mary Birkbeck, interview with the author, December 2008, and letter to the author, January 2009.
121. Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, Tricks of Memory (1993), p. 41.
122. Worsthorne, p. 35.
Chapter 8: Staying On: A Changing World
1. John Cornforth, Country Houses of England, 1948–1998 (1998), pp. 31–2.
2. Caroline Seebohm, The Country House: A Wartime History 1939–45 (1989), p. 39 (afterwards Seebohm).
3. Observation by Julian Fellowes in an interview with the author, 30 January 2009.
4. From ‘Notes on the Life of Harvey Lane’ transcript by David Stacey of Leigh Manor, Shropshire.
5. From ‘Notes on the Life of Harvey Lane’.
6. Christopher Simon Sykes, The Big House (2005), pp. 346–56.
7. Stately Service: Then and Now (2007), pp. 11–15, and ‘Notes on the Life of Harvey Lane’.
8. Stately Service: Then and Now (2007), pp. 11–15.
9. Seebohm, p. 39.
10. John Martin Robinson, The Country House at War (1989).
11. Margaret Powell, Below Stairs (1984), p. 153.
12. Ernest Gowers, Houses of Outstanding Historic or Architectural