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[edit]James Surtees Phillpotts | |
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Born | 18 July 1839 |
Died | 16 October 1930 |
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[edit]James Surtees Phillpotts was born in Cornwall on 18 July 1839[1]. He was educated at Winchester College[2] and New College, Oxford. He died in Tunbridge Wells on 16 October 1930[1].
"He was invariably badly dressed, and never looked so well in anything as in his cap and gown. In general appearance he was something like Ruskin; but although he sometimes liked to talk art, he knew practically nothing about it. He would insist on making speeches although he was the worst speaker in England; he would insist on trying to talk French and German, although he had the vilest accent ever heard. When he tried to tell a joke or relate a comic story, it was pain and misery to listen; when he danced, his movements were those of a half-tamed buffalo; when he played whist he invariably fell asleep in the middle of the rubber." -- A former pupil
He was invariably badly dressed, and never looked so well in anything as in his cap and gown. In general appearance he was something like Ruskin; but although he sometimes liked to talk art, he knew practically nothing about it. He would insist on making speeches although he was the worst speaker in England; he would insist on trying to talk French and German, although he had the vilest accent ever heard. When he tried to tell a joke or relate a comic story, it was pain and misery to listen; when he danced, his movements were those of a half-tamed buffalo; when he played whist he invariably fell asleep in the middle of the rubber. - A former pupil
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