Foreword and acknowledgements

Summary

For support in the preparation of this volume, the author is grateful to the Olin, Leverhulme and Earhart Foundations, to the Master and Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge and to President Peter Diamandopoulos, late of Adelphi University, Long Island. For information, conversation or access to sources, he is grateful to Mr Bruce Anderson, Professor John Beer, Father Dominic Bellenger, Professor Michael Bentley, Mr Michael Black, Professor Mark Blitz, Rev. Professor Henry Chadwick, the late Mr Louis Claiborne, Mr David Cooper, Dr Charles Covell, Lord Dacre of Glanton, Rev. Dr Dermot Fenlon, Dr Niall Ferguson, Miss Sibylla-Jane Flower, the late Mr Peter Fuller, Professor Timothy Fuller, Dr Peter Ghosh, Mr Martin Golding, Dr Simon Green, Mr Simon Heffer, Dr Boyd Hilton, Professor Harold James, Mr Frank Johnson, Mr Roger Kimball, Mr Hilton Kramer, Dr Sheila Lawlor, Dr Oliver Letwin MP, the late Mr Samuel Lipman, Professor Carnes Lord, Dr Roger Lovatt, Professor Alasdair MacIntyre, Dr W. J. MacPherson, Dr and Mrs James McGeachie, Mr James McNamara, Dr John Milbank, Rev. Dr Edward Norman, Dr J. P. Parry, Professor Roger Scruton, Dr Brendan Simms, Dr Stephen Taylor, Mrs John Vincent, Miss Sally Vincent, Dr John Walsh, Dr David Watkin, Mr Hywel Williams, Professor Philip Williamson, the late Professor Charles Wilson, Professor Blair Worden, Mr Brian Wormald, Dr Patrick Wormald and Sir Peregrine Worsthorne.