Nicholas Shrimpton is the editor of Trollope's The Prime Minister (2011), Trollope’s An Autobiography and Other Writings (2014), and a new edition of The Warden (2014). He is currently completing an edition of Matthew Arnold's poetry and a book on Arnold's early poetry.
Trollope cheerfully turned up and enjoyed and a convivial dinner in the company of men who, that very morning, had been deciding whether to go to war with his country.