was tall for her age, and rather awkward in her manners, apt at present to be slapdash and independent, and decidedly lacking in "that repose which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere"'. In the 1917 P. G. Wodehouse short story The Romance of an Ugly Policeman, there is this passage: "Ellen Brown was a nice girl, but she had a temper, and there were moments when her manners lacked rather noticeably the repose which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere." In the story "William Spoils the Party" - included in the 1925 collection "Still William" by Richmal Crompton, there is a reference to Mr. Bott (the self-made man in the village who has become wealthy through his invention of a digestive sauce). Crompton summarises him thus: "Mr. Bott was 'self-made' and considering all things had made quite a decent job of himself, but his manners had not 'the repose that stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.'" The theme is alluded to in the fictional play 'Simple Hearts and Coronets', which is advertised as playing locally in the 1932 film 'The Water Gipsies (film)' which allegorically refers to the real film's plot. References External links - full text of the poem Poetry by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1842 poems