Between 1937 and 1939 it was reportedly home to the socialite and author Jessica Mitford and her husband Esmond Romilly, nephew of Winston Churchill. The row as it looked before World War Two.

Giles Romilly writes the first half, a critique of Newlands School in Seaford and Wellington College, where he was followed by Esmond and Mileham 20 years later. Democrats’ denunciations of public ...