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...BRIDGEMAN, RT. HON. WILLIAM CLIVE. . . s. of late Rev. and Hon. John R. O. Bridgeman, Rector of Weston-under-Lizard. . . g. s. of Ven. William Clive, Archdeacon of Montgomery. . . . Educ.: Eton (Captain of the Oppidans). . . . Assistant Private Secretary to Lord Knutsford. . . . Assistant Private Secretary to Sir Michael Hicks Beach...
...British journalist would have dared to say last week, on the 33rd birthday of Edward of Wales that he still looks like a callow Eton schoolboy. None would have added the idea that Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is as pink and paunchy as Henry VIII. Finally, few would have been so hardy as to gaze upon the strong, burly figure of Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead and then remark that if he would only carry an ax instead of a Malacca cane he would make a capital headsman...
...King Henry VIII who strolled about, ready to buss shy maids, was, of course, Chancellor Churchill. The scowling headsman, shouldering a "bloody" ax was the Earl of Birkenhead. Of the two simpering "little boys" in Eton jackets, turned down collars, pink bow ties and white socks, one was Prince George, 24, the other Edward of Wales...
...athletes-contrary to Kent's traditions of simplicity. But Father Sill quickly shaped his wish into a plan, and last week sailed with his crew squad for England, student third class on the Berengaria. The Kent crew will enter the Henley Regatta, will also row separate races with Eton and Radley, will visit Oxford and Cambridge...
Margaret, Wilfrid, Stephen, Mollie, Robin, Angela live in an English country house. In the beginning of the book they have tea in the nursery, go to school, behave like English children. The close and careful breeding that feeds the playing fields of Eton is theirs. Later the restraint of this upbringing makes differing marks on their characters. Mollie foregoes her music and submits to fate and a father who tends his children without tenderness. Margaret's nerves, sharpened by inhibitions, end by shattering her mind. Wilfrid, a normal eldest son, inherits peace and his father's lands. Robin...