Charterhouse School

In the end, the family was left with what they had heard.

John Wesley had been away at Charterhouse School during the winter of 1716 and 1717, so unlike his parents and sisters, he could never say that he had personally encountered old Geoffrey.

But he was fascinated by what had happened in the house where he had grown up.

When he returned to Epworth in 1720, he began carefully asking about it.

You know, very few people in dad's background were servants.

were anything other than than working class uh or you know and or poor you know i said i think his his father's family were really poor um and we'll perhaps explore that in future episodes so i i suspect that might have leapt off the page at dad as it did to me um And there's a bit at the beginning, I'm going to go back a little bit earlier in the article, where David Dimbleby says, He says the only advantage to going to Charterhouse is that it could get you into a golf club.

Right.

And then he makes a pointed comment against anti-Semitism in golf clubs, which is great.

Each week at Chelsea, parents pay £1,000.

£120 an hour for children to receive one-on-one coaching, a two-week camp at Charterhouse School next summer, during which the children train for up to 24 hours a week with Chelsea coaches, costs £4,700.

Arsenal charge two grand a week for football camps, which are held at an array of elite independent schools.

So does this show the rise of American culture of pay-to-play? Because in the US, parents spend around 40 billion quid on sport, with the figures soaring by 46% over the six years to 2024.

I remember he'd only been there a couple of weeks, and I was working from home, and he called me up.

He's like, Dad, can you go and pick me up a pizza? And I'm like, you can eat at the school, like Charterhouse School, an elite public school, unbelievable, and he got all his food included, but he was a fussy eater, Charlie, like really fussy.

Can you just get me a pizza, please? And I'm like, oh, God.

All right, Charlie, I'll go.

You're going to Marlborough.

You're going..." The three, they go to Westminster, Marlborough, and Charterhouse, which are all sort of one tier down below Eton.

So they're still very, like very, very fancy, but like the apex is like Eton, Harrow, then sort of they're one rung down.

Um, but those, yeah, now I think you, you know, unless you were...