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Article: Sir Arnold de Montmorency: protector of Contemporary Review.(Obituary)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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CONTEMPORARY Review was founded in the middle of the nineteenth century and it still flourishes at the start of the twenty-first. To survive through three centuries and throughout decades of vastly different outlooks on life is a considerable achievement. Much of this is due to the talents of our contributors and the loyalty of our readers, but there are also a few stalwart individuals whose dedication ensured the continuance of the journal. No one has contributed more to this during the last half century than Sir Arnold de Montmorency who died last December at the tremendous age of 95.
Arnold was born in 1908 in those spacious days of Edwardian England and ...