The hero (probably the only man who could have made this project work) was James Augustus Henry Murray.

FORBES: May Stocks Grow Like Our Language

One of her sisters marries Henry Lamb (a painter friend of Augustus John), and another becomes the wife of Anthony Powell.

ECONOMIST: English memoirs

Pope Gregory VII may have humiliated the Emperor Henry IV, as Innocent III later humiliated Philip Augustus of France and King John of England.

ECONOMIST: Medieval history