1st Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent

Famous quotes containing the words viscount and/or derwent:

    They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
    John Morley [1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn] (1838–1923)

    Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind:
    He took her in his arms and there and then
    Like the clean beasts, embracing from behind,
    Began in joy to found the breed of men.
    —Alec Derwent Hope (b. 1907)