Lord darlington biography

‘Live while you can; it’s a mistake not to.’

-Henry James, The Ambassadors

I

Henry James was born in America, Kazuo Ishiguro in Japan a century later. Both permanent expatriates lived in England and became British citizens, but wrote about English habits, manners and customs from a perceptive outsider’s point of view. Above all James is interested in character: how people succeed or fail to live a moral life, and how social codes operate in individual lives. The Remains of the Day (1989), Ishiguro’s contemporary masterpiece, creates a character and setting in the Jamesian tradition.

Critics have suggested that Ishiguro’s handling of formal speech and conduct derives from his Japanese cultural inheritance. But his narrator, the butler Stevens, reveals his character through studiously formal, mannered and periphrastic speech that is more Jamesian than Japanese. Like James, Ishiguro produces his ironic effects through a gradual revelation of character and theme. In a hauntingly original style and voice, Stevens painstakingly constructs his own self-image, just as he perfects his performance as a butler. But Ishiguro’s thoroughly Jamesian character suffers from the self he has created.

One important difference between James and Ishiguro, however, is that while James wrote about contemporary life, Ishiguro writes a historical novel, set in a great house in the period between the two World Wars. Instead of focusing on the wealthy and aristocratic, Ishiguro’s main characters come from the servant class. While Stevens wrestles with his personal difficulties, he is also caught in a historical process. His employer, Lord Darlington, hopes to return to the traditional world as it was before the Great War, but political events overtake him and ultimately destroy his reputation and his way of life. Stevens, trained to keep up appearances, maintain dignity and propriety, and correctly perform minutely detailed duties, also strives to support the old order. As

Darlington

Though I do not dispute the fact that we have descended from neanderthals, the very notion that somehow, under duress, we can convert back is simply preposterous.
But if only—
It is an insult to the very core of this historical society. We are scientists, learned men, we deal in facts. Your theory is pure lunacy, as crazy and deranged as that mad-man who escaped from the asylum.

Lord Darlington and Charles

Lord Darlington is a minor character in Primal. He is a late 19th century scientist and former Oxford champion boxer in England, originally an American from Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Appearance[]

Darlington is a tall, middle-aged human man. He sports a full head of neck-length light brown hair and mutton chops. He wore a tuxedo and bow tie, which he progressively lost more of throughout the episode. Since he was a boxing champion, he is well-built, though perhaps not as well-built as he previously was. His hair becomes loose and flowing by the end of the episode.

Personality[]

As a wealthy knowledgeable Englishman during the Victorian era, Darlington is naturally well-spoken. He evidently does not believe Charles' theory about man's potential savagery, and even cracks a few jokes with the other scientists about it. This can be seen further when he jokes to the Constable that Charles is the escaped Mad-Man.

During the Mad-Man's invasion, Darlington was able maintain a higher degree of composure during times of duress, as he is quick to regain his wits and composition, even as a crazed hulking Mad-Man wrecks havoc around his home. He's also a man of moral character as he frequently shows concern for the wellbeing of his friends and goes out of his way to try to protect or help them from the Mad-Man.

However, Darlington starts to resort to more desperate and primitive means to combat the Mad-Man, gradually becoming more aggressive against him in the process. Though he contrasts the M

British politician

Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, PC (c. 1705 – 6 March 1758), known as Lord Barnard between 1753 and 1754, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1726 to 1753 when he succeeded to a peerage as Baron Barnard.

Life

Vane was the eldest son of Gilbert Vane, 2nd Baron Barnard, of Raby Castle, Staindrop, county Durham, and his wife, Mary Randyll, daughter of Morgan Randyll of Chilworth, Surrey. His sister Anne Vane was a mistress to Frederick, Prince of Wales. He was educated privately. He married Lady Grace Fitzroy, daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland, on 2 September 1725.

Career

Vane contested County Durham as a Whig on his family's interest at the 1722 British general election, but was unsuccessful. He was brought in by the ministry as Member of Parliament for Launceston at a by-election on 31 May 1726. At the 1727 British general election he planned to stand for county Durham, but stood down to avoid splitting the Whig vote, and the ministry found him another seat at St Mawes where he was returned as MP unopposed. He went into opposition, and attached himself to his wife's first cousin William Pulteney. He never spoke in the House, which was said to be because of 'a monstrous tongue which lolled out of his mouth'. He was returned again in a contest for St Mawes at the 1734 British general election, on the Boscawen interest, and, at the 1741 British general election, was returned unopposed as MP for Ripon on the Aislabie interest.

After Walpole's fall in 1742, Pulteney procured for Vane a lucrative sinecure as Vice-Treasurer and Paymaster General of Ireland and he also became a Privy Counsellor (Ireland) in 1742. Vane lost his Irish post when Pulteney and his adherents were turned out in December 1744. He was finally returned for county Durham at the 1747 British general election as a government supporter. H