MADAM – In your report last week (ATG No 2321) about the forthcoming (December 21) debate in the House of Lords concerning the proposed ivory ban, you refer to “the late Lord Carrington, former chairman of Christie’s”.
Lord Carrington has long been a hero of mine, not because he was an excellent chairman of a distinguished auction house, which I still frequent, but ever since he resigned in 1982, when foreign secretary, over the Falklands, without any encouragement.
In doing so, he set a rare example of honour and courage, traits which are so lacking in many of today’s politicians.