But the last remaining vestige of the sport's snobby, country club roots is proving tough to kill off.

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This was the England of which there will always be one: class obsessed, snobby but, in its way, endearing.

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But in their place have come eating clubs, every bit as snobby as the fraternities and without their occasional social merit.

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The stereotype involving Coolidge is that he was a snobby New Englander, a member of the Mayflower crowd, who disliked the foreign born.

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It's entertaining when sports fans chew the fat in that way, but in the arts certain criticisms simply come off as cruel, snobby or absurd.

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It would be fair to say that biglaw is fractally snobby.

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When so much of life has become a global mashup, it is heartwarming to find a place that is so proudly English, but not stuffy or snobby.

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Mr Campbell concludes that it was more probably a lonely time, during which the grocer's daughter made a few contacts as president of the Conservative Association but may have read little and was traumatised by the snobby condescension she met from the progressive young things at Somerville College.

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