Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Nigel Lawson
Born: March 11, 1932
Died: April 3, 2023 (aged 91)
Bio: Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby was a British Conservative politician and journalist. He was a member of parliament representing the constituency of Blaby from 1974 to 1992, and served in the Thatcher Cabinet from 1981 to 1989.
Known for:
- An Appeal to Reason (2008)
- The Nigel Lawson Diet Book (1996)
- Memoirs of a Tory Radical (2010)
- Clinical Chemistry
- The English Saints: East Anglia (1999)