“The very epitome of snobbishness and embodiment of the exclusive hereditary principle.”

—  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

A. D. Harvey, Collision of Empires. Britain in Three World Wars, 1793-1945 (London: Phoenix, 1994), p. 460.
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