The Coterie
The Coterie comprised a fashionable and famous set of English aristocrats and intellectuals of the 1910s, widely quoted and profiled in magazines and newspapers of the period. Originally described as a "corrupt coterie", its members included:
Lady Diana Manners, the most famous beauty in England;
Raymond Asquith, son of the Prime Minister and a famed barrister;
Patrick Shaw-Stewart, a managing director of
Barings Bank and war poet; Edward Horner,
Duff Cooper and Sir Denis Anson.
World War I destroyed the Coterie, taking the lives of Horner, Shaw-Stewart and Asquith.