Lord Cottesloe, forgotten hero of the National theatre

So the Cottesloe, the smallest of the three theatres at the National, is to be renamed in honour of Lloyd Dorfman, the chairman of Travelex, who has donated £10m to the theatre. The Eton-educated Lord Cottesloe, admittedly, is not a fashionable figure for today; he is described in Peter Hall's diaries as a Bentley-driving, "Polonius-like" figure. But, as chairman of the Arts Council, he was a real mover behind the creation of the National Theatre. His name will be given to an adjoining public room, and presumably, in time, quietly forgotten.