Eton College

which was one of the books I sort of grew up with.

When I was at school, I went to my prep school in Sunningdale, and then I went on to Eton.

And two of the masters, Eaton, who both were considerable cricketers, Claude Taylor and David McIndoe, wrote a book called Cricket Dialogue.

And it came out, I think, just soon after the war.

still

exist for men who are in their 50s and I think that's so interesting and also it's so amazing that somebody who went to both Oxford and Eton can claim that they see a skeletal woman and that they don't know that skeletal woman has an eating disorder.

I think that's the thing I've walked away with.

That's probably the most, just some,

You know, whereas the Norwegian family seemed quite educated, I thought our royal family were quite stupid.

I've never been much interested in him.

I think he didn't get into Eton, so he had to go to Gordon's.

You know, he's just not interesting.

A background of great beauty, too, in a home designed by Philip Webb and decorated by William Morris and Burne-Jones.

It was not until Maurice had gone to Eton that Gertrude's education took a serious turn when, at the age of 15, she was sent to an academy for young ladies in London.

It was not customary in 1883 for girls of Gertrude's class to be sent away to school, but Mrs.

Bell felt that her stepdaughter had a mind and a character which needed something more forceful than a private governess.

She attended dinners at the Duke of Devonshire's and at the Joe Chamberlain's and other well-known houses of Victorian London.

In addition to the social pillars, she met interesting people such as the Dumoyes and Anstey and Sidney Webb and the ill-fated Sir Redvers Buller.

She went to Ascot, where she wagered in a small way and made the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes with her brother for the Eton and Harrow match.

These social activities did not prevent her from keeping up with her studies.

The England young man is very taken by the American young woman.

And so apparently he gets sent to Eton immediately that very evening.

He's sent away.

It is love at first horse race win.

And please let me quote.

In the UK, its cultural capital remains high enough that Boris Johnson, an incompetent drunkard whose social privilege enabled him to attend Eton and Oxford, managed to maintain the illusion of being an intellectual partly on the basis of his ability to parrot a few garbled lines of Homeric Greek.

Harsh.

Yes, but a little bit funny too, right? Well,

The Chief Justice Oliver St. John, who had been chosen to negotiate a confederacy between England and Holland in 1651, was well known enough to Marvell for him to send some verses of compliment on the occasion.

St. John had married Elizabeth Oxenbridge, the sister of a well-known preacher, John Oxenbridge, who had obtained a fellowship at Eton.

There is a letter of the 28th of July 1653 from Marvell to Cromwell, who had appointed him tutor to one of his wards, William Dutton, and sent the two of them to reside with the Oxenbridges.

Here Marvell again turned to poetry.

But if we may believe Milton, religious liberty was just as far from being obtained under the Presbyterians.

The persons whom they appointed to such positions as that occupied by Oxenbridge displaced some men of a higher character.

For example, among those ejected from a fellowship was another friend of Marvell's, John Hales, then living in poor lodgings at Eton.

I account it no small honor, said Marvell later on in life, to have grown up into some part of his acquaintance and conversed a while with the living remains of one of the clearest heads and best prepared breasts in Christendom.

year eighteen sixty seven the bishop appointed the minister in that pastorate he lived and labored for just fifty-four years through many vicissitudes of good report and evil amidst serious and complicated difficulties and with results which were felt far and wide he died november thirteen eighteen thirty six in his rooms in king's college and was buried six days later in the great vault beneath the pavement of the antechapel we may notice that simeon's life was almost exactly contemporary with that of his illustrious friend and fellow canterbridgean william wilberforce who was born in seventeen fifty nine and died in eighteen thirty three william pitt the younger began his shorter life also in seventeen fifty nine but pitt an undergraduate at fifteen had left cambridge before simeon entered Another famous name of 1759 is Richard Pawson.

Like Simeon, and along with him, Pawson was on the foundation of Eton, and he took his bachelor's degree from Trinity College in 1782.

Simeon outlasted the great Greek scholar seven and twenty years, surviving from a Cambridge which

had only recently lost grey, and was still full of living traditions of Bentley,

one CHAPTER

II.

We have seen the scholar from Eton just established in the old court of Kings, busy there no doubt, like thousands of freshmen before him and after him, over the interests of the new life, getting his tutor's first counsels, visited by his undergraduate neighbours, and putting his rooms in order.

this last work if we may judge by his lifelong love of neatness in everything about him would be no small interest and undertaking and thus might have begun a course of commonplace cambridge experiences in which the new social surroundings would be taken just as they came and a fellowship and perhaps a college living accepted as matters of routine and the life lived and ended so as to leave little trace but three days after simeon's arrival an incident occurred which did in the will of god effectually modify his whole future in itself it was a most simple thing the provost dr william cook sent from the lodge to tell him that within a few weeks at mid-term the holy communion was to be administered in the chapel and that he must communicate on that day the message was based on a college rule now long repealed and which perhaps never should have been enacted as a fact it took simeon quite by surprise he might have met it with a passing thought of wonder and then accepted it as inevitable or he might have attempted a resistance however useless and so the mandate would have done him nothing but harm but it was to be far otherwise and we will hear the story in his own words as he tells it in a private memoir written in eighteen thirteen and often to be quoted again it was but the third day after my arrival that i understood i should be expected in the space of about three weeks to attend the lord's supper what said i must i attend on being informed that i must the thought rushed into my mind that satan himself was as fit to attend as i and that if i must attend i must prepare for my attendance there without a moment's loss of time i bought the whole duty of man william law's famous book the only religious book that i had ever heard of and began to read it with great diligence at the same time calling my ways to remembrance and crying to god for mercy and so earnest was i in these exercises that within the three weeks i made myself quite ill with reading fasting and prayer the first book which i got to instruct me in reference to the lord's supper for i knew that on easter sunday i must receive it again was kettle well on the sacrament but i remember that it required more of me than i could bear and therefore i procured bishop wilson on the lord's supper which seemed to be more moderate in its requirements i continued with unabated earnestness to search out and mourn over the numberless iniquities of my former life and so greatly was my mind oppressed with the weight of them that i frequently looked upon the dogs with envy wishing if it were possible that i could be blessed with their mortality and they be cursed with my immortality in my stead i set myself immediately to undo all my former sins as far as i could and did it in some instances which required great self-denial though i do not think it quite expedient to record them but the having done it has been a comfort to me even to this very hour insomuch as it gives me reason to hope that my repentance was genuine my distress of mind continued for about three months and well might it have continued for years since my sins were more in number than the hairs of my head but god in infinite condescension began at last to smile upon me and to give me a hope of acceptance with him but in passion week as i was reading bishop wilson on the lord's supper i met with an expression to this effect that the jews knew what they did when they transferred their sin to the head of their offering the thought came into my mind what may i transfer all my guilt to another has god provided an offering for me that i may lay my sins on his head then god willing i will not bear them on my own soul one moment longer accordingly i sought to lay my sins upon the sacred head of jesus and on the wednesday began to have a hope of mercy on the thursday that hope increased on the friday and saturday it became more strong and on the sunday morning easter day april four i awoke early with those words upon my heart and lips jesus christ is risen to-day hallelujah hallelujah from that hour peace flowed in rich abundance into my soul and at the lord's table in our chapel i had the sweetest access to god through my blessed saviour i remember on that occasion there being more bread consecrated than was sufficient for the communicants the clergyman gave some of us a piece more of it after the service and on putting it into my mouth i covered my face with my hand and prayed the clergyman seeing it smiled at me but i thought if he had felt such a load taken off from his soul as i did and had been as sensible of his obligations to the lord jesus christ as i was he would not deem my prayers and praises at all superfluous the service in our chapel has almost at all times been very irreverently performed but such was the state of my soul for many months from that time that the prayers were as marrow and fatness to me of course there was a great difference in my frames at different times but

Hey, can I change the subject for a second? I'm reading Spare, Prince Harry's biography, autobiography, because I guess he is writing it with, I think, a ghost writer is helping him.

But I'm only up to the fact that he's going into Eton now.

And when he will, his brother was two grades ahead of him.

So when he goes into Eaton, Prince William says that he tells him it says it says once or twice I'd confess to a teacher, a fellow student that I wasn't merely in the wrong class because he's saying he wasn't a great he wasn't smart enough to be at Eaton, but in the wrong location.