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The English Gentleman
Originally written for Debrett's Peerage, Douglas Sutherland's guide to that endangered species, the English Gentleman, was intended as an antidote to all the endless, dull little books on manners and etiquette. It offers a window on the rather perverse world of the genuine article.
Born Yesterday
This autobiography is a memoir of Douglas Sutherland's childhood spent in Scotland almost 70 years ago. It is a story of contrasts; the freedom of an upbringing running wild in the countryside and the disciplines of a boarding school education.
The Landowners
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Burgess and Maclean
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Fraud
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The English Gentleman Abroad
The characteristics of the English Gentleman went unremarked in their homeland. It was only when they ventured to foreign parts that their characteristics became caricatures in the eyes of amazed natives. Douglas Sutherland, whose chronicles of what must surely be a dying species have attracted world-wide attention, he has travelled widely abroad armed with a Collectors Kit for the purpose of researching this book. With the unerring nose of the connoisseur he has sniffed out the Gentlemen in his tradition watering holes and, by and large, has found him alive and well. In giving us the result of his researches he has recognised that with the invention of such new-fangled devices as the flying machine some change is inevitable.
Memories of Canada and Scotland - Speeches and Verses
Memories of Canada and Scotland - Speeches and Verses by John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Duke of Argyll is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.
The Yellow Earl
The 5th Earl of Lonsdale, Hugh Lowther, was perhaps the most famous English Lord in the world by the 1880s. His reckless spending of his vast fortune, his womanising, his love of gambling, horses, hunting and boxing rocked the aristocracy and has endeared him to risk-takers and bon-viveurs the world over ever since. As a penniless, wayward, younger son who had not expected to inherit, Hugh had joined a travelling circus for a year after leaving Eton, then moved on to America, spending months buffalo-hunting. He pawned his birthright to make his fortune from cattle ranching in Wyoming and was practically destitute when the scheme failed. But then his older brother unexpectedly died, Hugh took both the title and the vast fortune that went with it, and the rest is history: a close friend of Edward VII before and after his coronation, a great public benefactor and an unforgettable showman in everything he did. This biography is an elegant and fascinating tribute to one of aristocracy's greatest eccentrics.
