contra mundum
Hi, it’s Edward the silent blogger. I’m reading Madresfield: the Real Brideshead by Jane Mulvagh (btw, does anyone know how the surname is pronounced?) and getting more and more in love with the Lygon family.
The first thing I learnt from the book was that two Lygons fought in Napoleonic wars. One of them, Lt Colonel Edward Pyndar Lygon, commanded a regiment of Life Guards at Waterloo. Click to look at his sword (a single-edge broadsword in fact).
More to come, more to come.