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The co-educational institution in Oxford, founded in 1863 by the Reverend Thomas Chamberlain, boasts a gifted headmaster, Alastair Chirnside.
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: He was blessed with inheriting the majestic Longleat, his stately family seat in Wiltshire - and a sprawling estate of more than 9,000 acres - after his father died in 2020.
That someone can write is no guarantee that they can talk or that meeting them would be worthwhile. “I think like a genius,” said Vladimir Nabokov, “I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.” And when Marcel Proust met James Joyce, their whole talk, the latter remembered, “consisted solely of the word ‘No.’ Proust asked me if I knew the duc du so-and-so. I said, ‘No.’” Asked if he had read Ulysses, Proust likewise replied, “No.” “The situation,” Joyce recalled, “was impossible.” But the literary scene has no shortage of Boswells, eager to ho...