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Sir, Tories have not represented Canterbury since 1835 without interruption (“Tory addiction”, June 14). Between 1880 and 1885 the constituency had no MP. It...

The Peel Society, based at Tamworth in Staffordshire and now in its 35th year, promotes interest in, and fuller understanding of, the career of Sir Robert Peel...

It was in 1832—and the Tory candidate was none other than Gladstone, then on the right of the Conservative Party. Alistair Lexden describes the election in a...

Lord Lexden has joined the Independent/ State School Partnership Forum. This important Forum, at which Alistair Lexden spoke in January (see above), promotes...

The Prince of Wales stirred considerable controversy when he suggested on May 19 that some of President Putin’s actions bore a resemblance to Hitler’s. Alistair...

On May 23 Lord Lexden was guest of honour at the annual prize-giving ceremony at Brooke House College in Market Harborough, Leicestershire.

One especially modest prime minister took care to retain his anonymity as he travelled home to Baker Street by underground from Westminster (letter, May 21).

The report from the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution, of which Alistair Lexden has been a member for two years, was launched on May 16.

The thriving Independent Schools Association (ISA), of which Alistair Lexden is President, has instituted a new series of 14 awards recognising the high...