Quote Originally Posted by Geezer View Post

I love his bio on the book, saying he “considers himself a product of the so-called working class - whatever that may mean”. He went to prep school at the Dragon (£10,000 per term now), big school at Rugby (£12,000+ a term), where his father had been a pupil, and then Oxford University. He was a junior officer in the HAC, and bought both a house in Chelsea and Sterling Armaments in his 20s.

So take your choice. Was he a dynamic individualistic entrepreneur thwarted by the lethargy and plotting of the Establishment, or a rich kid who thought it would be fun to own a machine-gun factory, without realising that its core product was obsolescent? Or a bit of both?
The Dragon? I know that school from growing up in Oxford, its an elite school for little Lords. One cannot claim to be a member of the common people if you have been through there. The rest of it, even the HAC (mentioned in The Sloane Rangers Guidebook as one of the Sloane regiments), all match the same pattern of top class chappery. Typical of that type of person to be complacent and not invest or innovate. Tant pis toffo!