Lord Fairhaven’s Leather Britches

Henry Cockburn pays a visit to Lord Fairhaven’s enormous sartorial collection at Anglesey Abbey. © National Trust Images Anglesey Abbey only plays at being a National Trust property. In truth, it is something far stranger. Legion are those obstinate houses, prized from the brittle, mummified grip of thoroughbred Normans so that we, thermos-bearing Saxon–Socialists may…