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The opening entry in the Extracts for 1908 reads as follows: “The Hon. Kinnaird a dreary bigot of a liberal.” Can anyone suggest who this might have been? The note that I have written so far is: /It is not clear who is meant.The family of Lord Kinnaird had been Liberals.Neither of the two sons of the then Lord Kinnaird (11^th Lord Kinnaird), Hon. Douglas Arthur and Hon. Kenneth Fitzgerald were politicians, and in any case were possibly more likely to have followed their father’s Liberal Unionist politics, besides being only in their mid-20s.However, the 10^th Earl had been a staunch Liberal, and it seems possible, that the Kinnaird referred to was a younger son of the 10^th Lord, who had absorbed his father’s politics./ Can anyone suggest which Kinnaird it might have been who aroused Carrie’s (Kipling’s) scorn, and why? /Alastair Wilson/