Clive Exton Old Blue

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:30 pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... db2001.xml

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:32 am

The Telegraph page won't open for me !

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:53 am

If you click the x in the corner to close the note that tells you rather than 'ok' it opens

Ajarn Philip · Post by **Ajarn Philip** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:41 pm

englishangel wrote:If you click the x in the corner to close the note that tells you rather than 'ok' it opens

Blimey, Mary, I thought the Thai language was difficult enough to understand!

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:48 pm

I seem to have caused a few problems! Don't understand why though!

When I previewed it prior to posting the link opened for me when I clicked on it and did so again today when I tested it having read the subsequent posts.

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:44 pm

It opened straight away without any problems for me.

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:36 pm

Vonny wrote:It opened straight away without any problems for me.

Same for me; an impressive CV

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:18 pm

I am hoping to include an obit in the OB section of the forthcoming edition of the Blue (material required imminently). Can anyone find a pic - I have searched the internet long and hard - or give me his dates at CH and house?

jhopgood · Post by **jhopgood** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:35 pm

From the Telegraph

He was born Clive Jack Montague Brooks in London on April 11, 1930. The son of a minor civil servant, he grew up in Islington, a bookish child whose shyness could be misread as arrogance. He won a scholarship to Christ's Hospital, but was unhappy, caused trouble and had to leave at 16.

The independent says we are a private school.

He may be in the Who's Blue under his own name, and you could work out his dates from the above, he must have left in 1946.

jhopgood · Post by **jhopgood** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:38 pm

From the Guardian

The son of a civil servant, Exton was born in Islington, north London, and won a scholarship to Christ's Hospital, where he achieved a reputation for irreverence by throwing a piece of margarine which missed its target and defaced a valuable painting by Antonio Verrio.

Not the first and not the last, just a question of shooting too high.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:45 pm

How do you spoil an oil painting with margarine?

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 7:30 pm

The house and dates of Exton/Brooks have normally been given as Mid B 1941-45, but in Who's Blue 1997 he gave his date of arrival as 1940. I'd be surprised if Sylvia Miller at CH couldn't tell you which version is accurate.

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:42 pm

There's a small photo of him here

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia ... 00466a.jpg

illustrating his Times obituary today

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen ... 302776.ece

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