Lady Strickland The picture carried in Edwin Vassallo’s book on Lord Strickland is of Margaret, Lady Strickland, not of Mabel Strickland, as stated in the caption to the article on the donation of Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici’s collection of books to the university (March 10). Margaret was the daughter of one of Britain’s press magnates who in his time had the largest newspaper empire outside Fleet Street. She was Lord Strickland’s second wife. His first wife, Edeline, died at Villa Bologna on December 15, 1918. Margaret is best known in Malta for the money she pumped into Strickland’s political activities, for providing the financial help needed for the foundation of St Edward’s College, for the building of the Hotel Phoenicia, for her great support to the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements and to the Malta Memorial District Nursing Association. The title of Vassallo’s book referred to in the article is Strickland, a biography in Maltese. Vassallo, Strickland’s right-hand man at his printing press, was also editor of his earliest newspapers and a works minister in his administration between 1927 and 1930. The biography was published by Progress Press in 1932. Victor Aquilina –...