Sir Denis Thatcher's obituary in the Guardian (27 June) describes his father ( who was born in New Zealand but settled in England at the age of 28) as a "rugby-playing freemason, and stalwart of the Kipling Society." Denis was born in 1915, so his father must have been born in the 1880s or '90s. Was membership of the Society between the wars indicative of a certain kind of person?