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  • Castle, were called Osbert le Porter and Stephen Esueillechien, or

    One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • It was 15 years later that Richard himself joined the staff, having spent his time after Gresham's school, Norfolk, and Christ's College, Cambridge, working for the League of Nations Union, the Spectator, the British Council, and finally the news department of the Foreign Office, where his colleagues included Osbert Lancaster and Guy Burgess.

    Richard Scott obituary 2011

  • Osbert Sitwell's glinting, biblical text is taken from the Book of Daniel and Psalm 137 "By the Waters of Babylon".

    Belshazzar's Feast; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Christmas project – review 2011

  • She already knew the aristocratic siblings, Osbert, Sacheverell and Edith Sitwell (as well as their protégé, the impecunious composer William Walton).

    Ada Leverson. 2009

  • Savile Lumley's brothers Lyulph (1867- ) and Osbert (1877- ) both went into journalism, the former as the editor of a court journal.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Steve 2009

  • In the late 1880s, Osbert abandoned naturalistic painting in favour of a Pointillist technique like that employed by Seurat and Signac

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • In the late 1880s, Osbert abandoned naturalistic painting in favour of a Pointillist technique like that employed by Seurat and Signac

    Vision 2009

  • Memories of his martyrdom and teaching survived: it is possible they inspired Simon FitzMary to follow the example of a man whose career and convictions in so many ways resembled his own; and they may have been a link between him and the Osbert of the document.9

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • According to this record, one Osbert, rector of St Mary Bothaw, near St Pauls Churchyard, donated land to Bermondsey Abbey, an act witnessed by Simon with his signature in 1248.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Sassoon, at ease with his homosexuality, boasted an extensive and sympathetic circle of gay friends, including Osbert Sitwell and K.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

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