Rex Mottram, the buccaneering moneyman in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, prefigured Donald Trump by a few generations.

11.11.2003 It’s Rex Mottram, only worse He broke the Bank of England. Now he hopes to break the Republican Party. Enter George Soros. George Soros, one of t ...

Even the snobbery on display – when Charles watches Rex Mottram choose the wrong glass from which to drink champagne – still works. His nostalgia for Oxford remains a thing of beauty.

The British stage and screen actor Charles Keating had one of his best television roles as Rex Mottram in Granada’s sumptuous production of Brideshead Revisited, before making a name for himself ...

Rather like Rex Mottram, I assumed that papal infallibility was an example of Roman Catholic arrogance and overreaching papal power. Instead, ...

Charles Keating, who has died aged 72, was a Shakespearean actor who, on television, specialised in rakes and villains. In Britain he was Rex Mottram, Lady Julia Flyte’s admirer-turned-cheating ...

There is a real danger of becoming too pompous about the implements you drink with, as Charles Ryder discovered in Brideshead Revisited. When the ludicrous, swaggering Rex Mottram takes Charles to ...