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Derek Jarrett

John Derek Jarrett (18 March 1928 – 28 March 2004) was an English schoolteacher, historian, and writer.

Jarrett taught at Sherborne School in Dorset until the mid-1960s, then at Goldsmith’s College of the University of London for the remainder of his academic career.

He is best known for his edition of Horace Walpole’s Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, and perhaps for his sometimes acerbic reviews in the New York Review of Books.



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