“I do not understand,” said Lord Salisbury as they walked together one day, “what your real political position is.”

“Oh, I am a ‘Smithite’, Lord Salisbury,” replied Sir Henry reverentially – “a convinced ‘Smithite’ in politics.”

“But what is your object?”

“To do good, simply to do good,” was the reply.

(From the Life of Lord Randolph Churchill by Winston Churchill)

John Lentell

4th January, 1969