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 Interest (1950), section ii, paragraph 10.
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 the author, 11 December 2008.
83. The National Trust Manual of Housekeeping: The Care of Collections in Houses Open to the Public (2005), especially Madeline Abey-Koch, ‘History of Housekeeping’, pp. 21–31, and Helen Lloyd, of the National Trust, interview with the author, 30 January 2009.
84. Helen Lloyd, interview.
85. National Trust Manual of Housekeeping, pp. 21–31.
86. Cornforth, p. 291.
87. Devonshire, The House, pp. 76–77.
88. The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, interview with the author, 9 January 2009.
89. Henry Coleman, interview with the author, 9 January 2009.
90. Alan Shimwell, interview with the author, 9 January 2009.
91. Jim Link, interview with the author, 9 January 2009.
92. Jim Link, interview.
93. Helen Marchant, interview with the author, 9 January 2009.
94. Devonshire, The House, pp. 52–54, and interviews.
95. Devonshire, The House, pp. 76–77, and interviews.
96. Julian Fellowes, interview with the author, 30 January 2009.
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