To start with a story: long years ago in 1978 Mary Lady Fairfax hosted a dinner in her Point Piper home Fairwater at which the guest of honour was Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, Tory grandee, former (and later) Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, also known as Quintin Hogg. To my surprise Lady Fairfax invited me.
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