Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy?: The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer: An Episode of the Great War - Lentin, Antony
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Sir Edgar Speyer was a conspicuous figure in the financial, cultural, social and political life of Edwardian London. Head of the syndicate which financed the construction of the deep 'tube lines' and 'King of the Underground', he was also a connoisseur and active patron of the arts who rescued the 'Proms' from collapse.

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Sir Edgar Speyer was a conspicuous figure in the financial, cultural, social and political life of Edwardian London. Head of the syndicate which financed the construction of the deep 'tube lines' and 'King of the Underground', he was also a connoisseur and active patron of the arts who rescued the 'Proms' from collapse.
Autorenporträt
Antony Lentin is a Senior Member at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Barrister and formerly a Professor of History at the Open University, he is the author of Lloyd George and the Lost Peace (2001), The Last Political Law Lord: Lord Sumner (1859-1934) (2009) and General Smuts (2010). He has published widely on 18th-century Russia and edited The Odes of Horace for Wordsworth Classics (1997).