- Wrote a book, Widower's House, about his adventures with the women who pursued him after his first wife's death.
- Educated at Eton and Oxford.
- Was Warton Professor of English at Oxford from 1960-1990.
- Second wife Audi Villers is an old friend of the family.
- He was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1999 for his services to Literature.
- He was the youngest of three boys in a British military family. He was born in Lahore, and grew up in England.
- He served in the Grenadier Guards during WWII.
- Is a literary critic and author, known for his writings on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alexander Pushkin, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, and Henry James.
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