Millionaire’s son in caning row
Here’s an interesting piece of social
history from 1954. A millionaire’s son (in the days when a million pounds was
worth something!) is caught shoplifting but the chief constable doesn’t
prosecute him because the headmaster at his posh school gave him a ‘severe
caning’.
As
published in the Daily Sketch, 15 November 1954
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One wonders if the caning was as severe as the one David Niven describes in his autobiography. It ought to have been.
ReplyDeleteNot very sore l would have thought, and in the pic above the master is standing on the wrong side of him. How can he hit him properly like that?
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