The Holy-Fox

Macaulay would have made a wonderful review out of this fine book, which intimately touches one of England’s last historical characters. Dealers in the lying or laudatory art of biography will award it a very high place for truth. The author has opened the soul and mind of an English statesman, leaving no facts, and even few questions, for the Day of Judgment. The documentation is colossal, sometimes exhilarating, sometimes appalling.

Edward Wood was raised by a severe, loving Victorian father whose title he inherited to be mocked by politicians as the Holy-Fox. Halifax, I add, is medieval for Holy-Faex, the Holy Trees, so-called from a relic of the Virgin. His father spent a lifetime mediating the Church of England with Rome, half a century ahead

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Sir Shane Leslie

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Macaulay would have made a wonderful review out of this fine book, which intimately touches one of England’s last historical characters. Dealers in the lying or laudatory art of biography will award it a very high place for truth. The author has opened the soul and mind of an English statesman, leaving no facts, and even few questions, for the Day of Judgment. The documentation is colossal, sometimes exhilarating, sometimes appalling.

Edward Wood was raised by a severe, loving Victorian father whose title he inherited to be mocked by politicians as the Holy-Fox. Halifax, I add, is medieval for Holy-Faex, the Holy Trees, so-called from a relic of the Virgin. His father spent a lifetime mediating the Church of England with Rome, half a century ahead