Thanks for the correction, duly fixed, and amusing notes. The factor of his American heritage has considered extensively by Gilbert, Pilpel, Manchester, and others. When Adlai Stevenson asked him if he had a message for the English-Speaking Union, he replied: “Tell them you give them greetings from AN English-speaking Union.”

More seriously, I think his American influence is underappreciated. His mom, Jennie Jerome, Brooklyn girl (the original ‘Jenny from the block’) was always his advocate and more, met her husband Lord Randolph on the yachting scene and scooped him up, or he her, in four days—she having entered that world from her father, a NYC financial entrepreneur and organizer of the America’s cup races. How Victorian: brash American princess goes to Old World, title- and husband-hunting, and scores! I should like to think that Leonard’s alpha genes and foresigh–financial achievers have prescience (when they win)–carried through his daughter to his grandson, with considerable success and a few howlers. So let us look to WC’s Americanism in the next cycle of scholarship

Leonard created Jerome Park, in the Bronc (NYC) near where I grew up (dislaimer).