His association with Balliol book-ended his adult life: he was four years there as an undergraduate student of classical literature, ancient history, and philosophy; and for the last four years of his life he was an Honorary Fellow of the College, a status he very much enjoyed–though he would worry when he..…

The centuries-old tradition that England always welcomed foreign artists – Handel, Mendelssohn and Sir Charles Halle are only three examples, in the one field of music, of aliens who once enriched British life – no longer held good. ..…