"So little is known of the family of Wimsey that had it not been for the writings of Dorothy L. Sayers one might think that it had never existed."

So begins this history of the family of Sayers' famous detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, ferreted out by Scott-Giles, Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary (no, honestly, I am NOT making that up!), from the earliest known accounts of the family through the creation of the title to Lord Peter's generation.

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