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...public school, Marlborough. Although he had begun to write poetry at an early age, his expectations – like those of many young men of his generation – were that his privileged life would continue without the need for him to do much more than indulge his hobbies of golf, hunting and socialising. He continued to develop a poetic style and by 1914 had published some...

...public. Though the night was stormy, the crash attracted hundreds of townspeople to the front. The damage did not end with the sweeping away of the Old Chain Pier, for the enormous waves dashed the great iron girders against the piles of the new Palace Pier now in the course of erection, smashing away two piles completely and doing considerable mischief to other portions...

...publication of a semi-pornographic parody of the work of Alexander Pope. His supporters returned him to the Commons as MP for Middlesex, but on the grounds of his conviction, Parliament had expelled him in February 1769, twice; and then again in March. He was re-elected every time. By April, the authorities came up with a way of avoiding the cat-and-mouse game:...