Malim, friend of Julian Eversleigh and James Orlebar Cloyster in Not George Washington, went to Eton and Oxford, where he earned a double first. Now in the Foreign Office, secretary to Sir George Grant. A man of delicate literary skill, a genuine lover of books and a severe critic of modern fiction. Married to Kit Blake, he keeps an apartment in Vernon Place and a conjugal home at Hampstead Place.

• Not George Washington