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Who was Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley?

Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, PC, FRSL, was a British politician, author, constitutionalexpert and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Leader of the House of Commons in the government of PrimeMinisterMargaretThatcher from to He was a member of parliamentrepresenting the constituency of Chelmsford from to , and was made a life peer in His surname was created by compoundingthose of his father and mother.

Born

May 18,
London

Also known as

Norman Anthony Francis -Stevas

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Education

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
PhD, University of London
Venerable English College, Rome
Doctor of Juridical Science, Yale University
Christ Church, Oxford
University of Oxford
Middle Temple

Died

Mar 2,

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Norman St John-Stevas

LONDON (AP) - Norman St John-Stevas, a politician noted for his wit, his extravagance, and for falling foul of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has died at age

His family announced Monday that he died on Friday after a short illness.

Beyond the affectations, which included writing in purple ink and lapsing into Latin, he was a lawyer, an expert on Britain's unwritten constitution, a former Cabinet minister, former chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission, master of a Cambridge college, and advocate of the canonization of Princess Grace of Monaco.

He was elevated to the House of Lords in , taking the title Lord St John of Fawsley.

"Because I am burdened with a capacity for wit, people have sometimes had the impression that I am not serious in my approach," he once lamented. "Nothing could be farther from the truth."

St John-Stevas first served as a Cabinet minister in the waning months of Prime Minister Edward Heath's ad ministration, and returned following the Conservative victory in in Thatcher's first Cabinet.

He didn't last long, ejected in along with other moderate "wets" deemed insufficiently devoted to her policies.

He reportedly re

Privileged life of St John's favoured set

It was left to the Daily Telegraph to suggest just how ‘unmarried’ the former lawyer, politician, royal expert and Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, had been. At Emmanuel, the obituarist told us: “[He] was . . . accused of spending an excessive amount of time with a small clique of mainly public school-educated young men who, it was alleged, were favoured with introductions to royalty and captains of industry, to dinners at White’s, private theatrical performances at the Master’s Lodge and long, affectionate letters. Such personal privileges were extended to very few. Other undergraduates would recall the Master cutting them off in mid-sentence with some disparaging remark in Latin. To bitchy colleagues in other colleges, Emmanuel became known as ‘Meine Camp’.”

I feel sure many of my readers will recognise the type — once a familiar one on the Oxford college scene. Leaving aside any question of sexual impropriety, which I do not allege, this sort of favouritism to an elite set is one of the things that continue to give Oxbridge a bad name.

UCL BLOOMSBURY PROJECT

Estates in Bloomsbury

1 Duke of Bedford
2 City of London Corporation
3 Capper Mortimer
4 Fitzroy (Duke of Grafton)
5 Somers
6 Skinners' (Tonbridge)
7 Battle Bridge
8 Lucas
9 Harrison
10 Foundling Hospital
11 Rugby
12 Bedford Charity (Harpur)
13 Doughty
14 Gray's Inn
15 Bainbridge–Dyott (Rookeries)
Area between the Foundling and Harrison estates: Church land
Grey areas: fragmented ownership and haphazard development; already built up by

About the Foundling Hospital Estate

In addition to its work as an orphanage, the Foundling Hospital became, almost by accident, a major landlord in the fast-developing Bloomsbury area in the nineteenth century

The Governors of the Hospital had been forced to buy much more land (56 acres in total) than was actually needed for the orphanage itself, and by the late eighteenth century, when the Hospital faced a shortage of funds, residential development of the surplus land became its best financial option (Survey of London, vol. 24, )

The planned development met with opposition from both local residents who had hitherto enjoyed uninterrupted views, such as the

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