Alex Wilcock reports the death of Tristram Cary, the pioneer of electronic music who also wrote the score for the Ealing classic The Ladykillers.
And Cary does have a Liberal connection.
Tristram Cary was the son of the novelist Joyce Cary. Joyce Cary contributed a volume (Power in Men) to the short-lived Liberal Book Club in 1939, though the excellent Wikipedia entry on him suggests that he was unhappy with the way the book was edited.
Joyce Cary also wrote a trilogy of novels about Chester Nimmo, a Liberal politician. They were Prisoner Of Grace (1952), Except The Lord (1954), and Not Honour More (1955) - the three books described in the Wikipedia entry as "the second trilogy".
I have read several of Joyce Cary's novels and they are certainly worth seeking out. He had quite a critical reputation in his day and is unjustly neglected today.
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