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Happy St George’s Day | 23 April 2012

Elgar, of course, gets into my own English XI alongside the likes of Housman, Wodehouse, Shackleton*, Orwell, Turing etc etc.

*Anglo-Irish, of course, as a commenter points out and so, perhaps, should not be on this list.

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