Shaming of a sleeping giant
What to buy for the chinless toff in your life this Christmas? How about a new book called A Hundred and One Eminent Harrovians. James Blunt and Benedict Cumberbatch make the list, as does Winston Churchill, about whom the authors have found an untold story. In 1938, when a mere backbench grandee, Winnie returned to his alma mater to judge the Lady Bourchier Reading Prize. Sadly, having enjoyed a good lunch and the run of the head’s claret, Churchill nodded off as the boys droned on. Nudged awake at the end, he declared that they had all “read well” and ruled that those boys whose names were at the start of the alphabet were the winners. The head was