Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame Left to right: John Entwistle

Left to right: John Entwistle

King George V at the Cup Final

his demand that Scotland provide him with military assistance against France led to the Scots refusal and the foundation of the 'Auld Alliance' between them and the French

first President of the Royal Society

reluctant to accept this barely tamed 'gift'

Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame Left to right: John Entwistle'Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade', 1904. 'Scene: the Board of Trade. Time: office hours in the early 'eighties. Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade are taken unawares by their President, Sir Josiah Chamberlain'. Illustration from The Poets Corner, by Max Beerbohm, (London, 1904).