But what great anecdotes and snippets! I loved this one: Elliott’s father, Claude, was the headmaster of Eton. According to Macintyre, the elder Elliott “loath

But what great anecdotes and snippets! I loved this one: Elliott’s father, Claude, was the headmaster of Eton. According to Macintyre, the elder Elliott “loathed music, which gave him indigestion, despised all forms of heating as ‘effete,’ and believed that ‘when dealing with foreigners the best plan was to shout at them in English.’ ” Sounds like the inspiration for a character played by John Cleese.