tributes

‘I like it when my pupils run the world’: a celebration of Jeremy Catto

2 November 2024 9:00 am

The convivial Oxford don who died in 2018 is remembered by his many devoted students, who include bankers, barristers, diplomats and politicians as well as other distinguished historians

A modern Mark Twain

7 June 2014 9:00 am

The American writer, Charles Portis, has had what some novelists — the more purist ones — might regard as an…