‘Like his fellow Carthusian, Thackeray’s Colonel Newcome, Daintrey ended his days in the Charterhouse where to the end he was visited by many young women. I have lost an old friend and I do not doubt that Daintrey’s passing will bring a tear to the eye of more than one lady of quality and black bus conductress.’

From Antony Powell’s coda to the Daily Telegraph obituary of Adrian Daintrey. Published October 13, 1988. Reprinted in The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries: Celebration of Eccentric Lives Vol 1, pp. 98-100. (out of print).