English Gentleman

Originally written for Debrett's Peerage, Douglas Sutherland's guide to that endangered species, the English Gentleman, was intended as an antidote to all the endless, dull little books on manners and etiquette. It offers a window on the rather perverse world of the genuine article.

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Extremely funny Jilly Cooper Douglas Sutherland is a most witty exemplar of this vanishing species, and he has written a perfect self-parody of his type New York Times Introduction by Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Bart. Drawings by Timothy Jaques

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Douglas Sutherland was a descendant in the male line of William, Earl of Sutherland in 1235. He went through private school, public school and the regular army and lived in what he described as the coldest mini-castle in Scotland. He was a well-known shot, salmon fisherman and bon vivant.

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