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Matthew Ponsonby was being educated by Oldaker at Haslemere in 1914. Arthur Ponsonby's diary for 27 July 1914 records that "Mr Oldaker... was said to be kinder to the day boys because they would report straightaway at home any unpleasantness."

"HASLEMERE. —To LET, Furnished, for six weeks from August 1. New SCHOOL PREMISES; 600 ft.: lovely view*; three reception, six bed rooms; well-stocked garden, Oldaker. Red House."

"Walter R. Simmons, Leslie G. Thomas, and Iris Luckham, all scholars of our local National Schools, and Rate E. Porter, of Shottermill, have gained junior echolerships for the County of Surrey. The total number of candidates was 1.157, and the scholarships awarded numbered 251. The stioceestul candidates showed exceptional promise.— Cecil C. Hughee, son of Mrs. Guy Hughes, of liaslemere, has, at the age of 12 years end ei^ht monthe, passed out top of warn* 50 candidates for his Common Entrance Exanination, and gained a Council Exhibition at Epsom College. For the past five years he has been a pupil of Mr. F. A. Oldaker, of The Red House, Haalmnere."

Douglas Carson (1990): "Count Dmitri Mihailovich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky was born in Moscow in 1912. His mother died when he was three. He was brought up by an English nanny, Lucy Stark, who smuggled him out of Russia in 1920. 'On the railway journey to the Finnish frontier Lucy repeatedly coached Dmitri in his role as an English boy... On Friday, 21 May, 1920, the S.S. Dongola docked at Southampton with its cargo of freed British subjects — and one Russian boy. Dmitri was educated at Wellington and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1933, he married Frieda Mary Wicksteed: they had two children, Nikolai and Natasha. In 1935, Dmitri was president of the Cambridge Union. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1937. His marriage was dissolved. His second wife was Natalie Deytrikh. Their children were Tania (or Tatiana) and Andrei. Tolstoy on Divorce was published in 1946 and became a standard text. The author was lecturer in divorce to the Inns of Court from 1952 until 1968. He took silk in 1959. In the 1970s, he retired to Spain."


 * Manchester Evening News, 21 January 1943, p. 8: "Count is Engaged The engagement is is announced to-day of Count Dimitry Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, only son of Count Michael Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, to Miss Nathalie Deytrikh, only daughter of Captain and Mrs. Deytrikh, of Cromwell Place, London"


 * The Tatler, 17 March 1943, p. 25: "... St. George's, Hanover Square Tolstoy-Miloslavsky Deytrikh Count Dimitry Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, only son of Count Michael Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, and the late Countess Michael Tolstoy Miloslavsky, married Nathalie Deytrikh, daughter of Capt. and Mrs..."


 * "Tolstoy, Dimitry, (Dimitry Tolstoy-Miloslavsky), 1912–1997" in Who Was Who vol. X: "TOLSTOY, Dimitry, (Dimitry Tolstoy-Miloslavsky); QC 1959: Barrister-at-Law; b 8 Nov. 1912; s of late Michael Tolstoy-Miloslavsky and Eileen May Hamshaw; m 1st, 1934, Frieda Mary Wicksteed (marr. diss.); one s one d. 2nd 1943 Natalie Deytrikh; one s one d. Educ. Wellington... President of Cambridge Union, 1935. Called to Bar, Gray's Inn, 1937. Lecturer in Divorce to Inns of Court, 1952–68. Publications: Tolstoy on Divorce, 1946–7th edn 1971; The Tolstoys: genealogy and origin, 1991; articles in legal periodicals."