Essays in Biography

Introduction D.Winch Preface to the First Edition PART I: SKETCHES OF POLITICIANS The Council of Four, Paris 1919 Lloyd George: A Fragment A Meeting of the Council of Three Andrew Bonar Law Herbert Asquith Edwin Montagou Arthur Balfour Winston Churchill Reginald McKenna The Great Villiers Connection Trotsky on England PART II: LIVES OF ECONOMISTS Thomas Robert Malthus William Stanley Jevons Alfred Marshall Mary Paley Marshall Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Herbert Somerton Foxwell Sir Henry Cunynghame Henry Higgs Alfred Hoare PART III: BREIF SKETCHES Wilhelm Lexis Frederic Hillersdon Keeling A. A. Tschuprow Benjamin Strong C. P. Sanger Walter Case George Broomhall Frederick Phillips PART IV: HIS FRIENDS IN KING'S Frank Ramsey A. F. R. Wollaston W. E. Johnson William Herrick Macaulay Dilwyn Knox Julian Bell PART V: TWO SCIENTISTS Newton, the Man Bernard Shaw and Isaac Newton Einstein PART VI: TWO MEMOIRS Melchior: A Defeated Enemy My Early Beliefs