One of the most interesting things that have been written about Eton College is the biography of Ronald Knox by Evelyn Waugh (an author who, like this reviewer and about 5,999 out of 6,000 British citizens, did not go there). ‘Most candid Englishmen’, Waugh said in a half-hesitant, half-defiant way, ‘recognise it as a school sui generis which marks the majority of its sons with a peculiar Englishry, genial, confident, humorous and reticent’, and which nourishes its rare favourites ‘in a rich and humane traditional culture which admits no rival’.
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