I first saw Christopher Lee in Dracula on some midday horror movie special my parents would totally have forbidden me to watch! He scared the life out of me, it was great.
"Lee applied for a scholarship to Eton, where his interview was in the presence of the ghost story author M. R. James. His poor maths skills meant that he was placed eleventh, and thus missed out on being a King's Scholar by one place. His step-father was not prepared to pay the higher fees that being an Oppidan Scholar meant, and so he instead attended Wellington College, where he won scholarships in the classics, studying Ancient Greek and Latin."
That's kinda heartbreaking re maths. Imagine, we might have had Christopher Lee, the Classics scholar, too....
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I first saw Christopher Lee in Dracula on some midday horror movie special my parents would totally have forbidden me to watch! He scared the life out of me, it was great.
"Lee applied for a scholarship to Eton, where his interview was in the presence of the ghost story author M. R. James. His poor maths skills meant that he was placed eleventh, and thus missed out on being a King's Scholar by one place. His step-father was not prepared to pay the higher fees that being an Oppidan Scholar meant, and so he instead attended Wellington College, where he won scholarships in the classics, studying Ancient Greek and Latin."
That's kinda heartbreaking re maths. Imagine, we might have had Christopher Lee, the Classics scholar, too....