He was no aesthete, nor an intellectual. But he believed in intellect
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskAlso his was Sotheran’s, the rarest of London’s rare-books shops, where, if you could afford it, you just might find a set of Audubon’s volumes. Unbroken.
Uphold it he did at Ascott, near Tring, with its rare library and its plutocratic collection of pictures. Uphold it he did at, where Tony had joined Walter Layton and Brendan Bracken in 1928 to build the shareholding structure which entrenches the editor’s freedom to this day. Evelyn became the paper’s chairman for 17 years from 1972, supporting without stint three editors through the era when its modern success was set.”—N.M.
To get there, he would recruit executives and editors often more dynamic than himself. At Sotheran’s this method half-failed before the jungle of Amazon. But it did not fail at, where his consigliere Michael Richardson became Margaret Thatcher’s favourite banker, the triumphant privatiser of national industries—sell-offs all but monopolised by, where Evelyn compelled the management to “get out of printing” years before his friend Rupert Murdoch’s Wapping revolution.
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