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13. Gowers, Houses of Outstanding Historic Interest (1950), section ii, paragraph 12.
14. Interview with Mrs Davidson in 1971, typescript, by kind permission of Lord Crathorne.
15. Interview with Mrs Davidson (1971).
16. Harrison My Life, pp. 178–9.
17. Harrison My Life, p. 203.
18. Harrison My Life, p. 203.
19. Lesley Lewis, Private Life of a Country House (1982), p. 134.
20. Horn, Life Below Stairs, p. 235.
21. Information from Lady Mairi Bury of Mount Stewart, interview with the author, 5 September 2005.
22. Sir John Leslie, interview with the author, May 2008.
23. Barbara Cartland, Etiquette Handbook (2008), first published 1962, pp. 61–3 (afterwards Cartland).
24. Cartland, p. 147.
25. Cartland, p. 63.
26. Cartland, p. 63.
27. Cartland, p. 64.
28. Information on the West Indies from John Hardy, recalling his father’s staff in the 1950s at Radbrooke Hall, Cheshire.
29. Devonshire, The House, pp. 74–5 and 87.
30. Information about staff from St Helena from Martin Gee of Weston Park and Martin Drury; Horn, Life Below Stairs, pp. 263–73; and information about Mrs Mion at Capesthorne Hall from an interview with Lydia Lebus.
31. Stanley Ager and Fiona St Aubyn, The Butler’s Guide (1980), p. 9 (afterwards Ager). By kind permission of his daughter, Mrs Gill Joyce, and his co-author, Fiona St Aubyn.
32. Ager, p. 8.
33. Ager, p. 8.
34. Ager, p. 10.
35. Ager, p. 13.
36. Ager, p. 13.
37. Ager, p. 19.
38. Ager, p. 19.
39. Ager, p. 13.
40. Lord Crathorne, interview with author, 14 December 2008.
41. Lord Crathorne, interview.
42. Lord Crathorne, interview.
43. Lord Crathorne, interview.
44. Lord Crathorne, interview.
45. Gathorne-Hardy, pp. 30–70.
46. Obituary of Michael Kenneally, Daily Telegraph, 30 October 1999, by Christopher Simon Sykes, and Christopher Simon Sykes, interview with the author, 19 January 2009.
47. Christopher Simon Sykes, interview.
48. Daily Telegraph Obituary, 30 October 1999.
49. Christopher Simon Sykes, The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family (2005), p. 351; and interview.
50. Christopher Simon Sykes, interview.
51. Sykes, The Big House, p. 351, and interview.
52. Mrs Maureen Magee, interview with the author, 16 December 2008.
54. Maureen Magee, interview.
55. Maureen Magee, interview.
56. Maureen Magee, interview.
57. Examples given in VisitBritain’s Stately Service: Then and Now, pp. 12–15.
58. Mrs Rosalinde Tebbut, interview with the author, 1 December 2008.
59. Rosalinde Tebbut, interview.
60. Rosalinde Tebbut, interview.
61. Mrs Della Robins, interview with the author, 17 December 2008.
62. Della Robins, interview.
63. Della Robins, interview.
64. Graham Luke, interview with the author, 17 July 2008.
65. Graham Luke, interview.
66. Graham Luke, interview.
67. Martin Gee, interview with the author, 11 November 2008.
68. The Earl of Leicester, interview with the author, 27 November 2008.
69. Earl of Leicester, interview.
70. Maurice Bray, interview with the author, 27 November 2008.
71. Maurice Bray, interview.
72. Ian Macnab, interview with the author, 27 November 2008.
73. Waterfield, p. 194.
74. For example at Dalmeny, discussed in the introduction.
75. Hugh Petter, of Robert Adam Architects, interview with the author, 14 January 2009.
76. Ptolemy Dean of Ptolemy Dean Architects Ltd, interview with the author, 12 January 2009.
77. John Aidan Byrne, ‘Calling for Jeeves’, New York Post, 3 June 2007; see nypost.com.
78. Kathryn Hughes. ‘Downstairs Upstairs’, The Guardian, 31 May 2007.
79. Stephanie Rough, of Greycoat Placements Agency, interview with the author, 11 December 2008
80. Stephanie Rough, interview.
81. Stephanie Rough, interview.
82. Laura Hurrel, of Greycoat Placements Agency, interview with