One of the seeds for Land was that I was offered an OBE and I turned it down. I was thinking about why it was I didn't want it, and the first thing was that I didn't want 'British Empire' as part of my name. And the second was I said to myself, 'Well, if [notoriously laissez-faire British overseer] Charles Trevelyan has it, I don't want it.' He was given a knighthood after he called the Famine an act of God, and he still has it.
