Newcomers' Lives

To mention the names Ernst Gombrich, Nikolaus Pevsner, Joseph Conrad, Nancy Astor, C.L.R. James and Lucian Freud is to give but a brief glimpse of the impact immigrants to this country have made on our national culture and character.

Indeed, these people have been crucial to the development of recent British history and have been indispensable for the way we live now. By reproducing the Times obitu...