Now my acquaintance who used to sub the obituaries page has retired it’s all going down hill of course.
Jonathan Trelawny Morshead was born in 1942 in Calcutta during the rise of India’s independence movement. When he was three years old his parents sent him back to England to enrol at boarding school. Descended from Cornish gentry, he joined Morshead’s House — named after its founder, his grandfather Frederick Morshead — at Winchester College.
I think that’s extremely unlikely. 13, not 3. And describing 1942 as the rise of the indie movement has a certain oddity to it….
How did they send him “back” to England when he was born in India?
I think the 3 years old might be right – boarding school started early in those days and in those circles.
@ Gasman: but surely not at Winchester.
@jgh: that was the expression in those days.
An obituary in today’s Telegraph mentions two chemists who had supervised the deceased.
One of them might have taught me but if so I can’t remember him. The other one did teach me. It was memorable: circumstances required me to tell him, in the undergraduate lab he oversaw, that he was a “bloody fool”. Them wuz the days. The universities have gone to pot since then.