Sir,—Seán Beattie (‘The lasting legacy of the last viceroy’, HI 29.5, Sept./Oct. 2021) is not quite correct in saying that Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent was ‘the leading Catholic aristocrat in England’. He was the younger brother of the 15th Duke of Norfolk (who died in 1917), and by 1921 he was the uncle of the 16th duke, the thirteen-year-old Bernard Marmaduke, who was, by virtue of his peerage, the premier duke in England and hereditary Marshal of England. As the head of the Fitzalan-Howard family is Catholic, it was the incumbent duke, and not his uncle, who was the premier Catholic aristocrat.—Yours etc.,
RICHARD PINE
Corfu