Obituary: Richard Davis ; Cricketer for a Record Five County ClubsHodgson, Derek
In spite of his numerous character flaws, Flashman is represented as being a perceptive observer of his times (“I saw further than most in some ways” In its obituary of George MacDonald Fraser, The Economist commented that realistic sharp-sightedness (“if not much else”) was an attribute...
he was as mortal as anyone else and if anything he had become a demagogue. At the end he was alone, an empty and lonely vessel. Though his obituary was on the front page ofThe