On 16th September, the Anthony Powell Society revealed a blue plaque on the writer's home at 1 Chester Gate, just off Regent's Park.
My father, the writer Ferdinand Mount, Anthony Powell's nephew, said a few words. Also there was his elder son, the film director Tristram Powell. His younger son, John Powell, is Patron of the Society.
Powell (1905-2000) and his wife, Lady Violet Powell, lived at the house from 1937 to 1952. There Powell began his 12-novel sequence, . And it was there in 1949 that the Powells’ niece,
