A PEERLESS PEER
What makes a great man? What might ruin a reputation? Lord Snowdon married up, and his private life was often messy, but did Britain’s bourgeois mumblings mean his accomplishments were overlooked?
His sister was his only hospital visitor during his struggle with polio, which would leave him with a permanent limp.
By scott harper
FOLLOW SUIT
Posthumous reputations are seldom unequivocally fair. Some take an embarrassment of achievements to the grave and are then recognised for a single contribution to posterity (Nicolaus Copernicus enriched our understanding of the cosmos in uncountable...
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