The Genesis of a Gentleman

The following is an account concocted as accurately as possible, given that I was looking back at some three and a half decades ago, of how I came to be conditioned by my environment in the early 1970s, following my departure from Pangbourne College where I'd been a boarder between the 9th of September 1968 or thereabouts and the end of the summer term of 1972. It was a time of constant, frenetic social and cultural change in Britain, which couldn't help but exert an immensely powerful influence on an impressionable adolescent of 16 or 17, such as I was.