Sir Martin Gilbert CBE, 1936-2015 (2)
“Rose-lipt Maidens, Lightfoot Lads”
continued from part 1…
“Darling Randy, Here is Martin Gilbert, an interesting researching historian young man, who loves Duff….He is full of zeal to set history right. Do see him.” —Lady Diana Duff Cooper’s letter of introduction of Martin Gilbert to Randolph Churchill, 1962
“Stop that!” Seated beside him at his first appearance before the Churchill Society—the second Churchill Tour on 17 September 1985—I had caught Martin Gilbert riffling through a briefcase crammed with sheets of yellow foolscap, tossing some out as the minutes ticked by before his lecture, “Churchill’s London: Spinning Top of Memories.”
It was the first time I would hear a Gilbert speech, and here he was, culling it already.…