Now he has produced a biography of the original of Disraeli’s Sir Vavasour Firebrace in Sybil: Sir Richard Broun, Victorian champion of the baronets against the plebeians. Broun makes an ideal subject ...

As we tuck in, he explains at length and with great entertainment the differences between the strata of nobility – barons and baronets (the latter are the lowest ranked, but are still above ...

He is not a member of the House of Lords – baronets inherit the title “Sir” but remain commoners. But he has an encyclopedic knowledge of the strata of British nobility and how they ...