One chapter of the book also featured schoolboy versions of Egan's characters from Life in London.

In a similar vein, " Dedicated Follower of Fashion " ( 1966 ) wittily satirized the consumerism and celebrity worship of Carnaby Street and ' Swinging London ', while " David Watts " ( 1967 ) humorously expressed the wounded feelings of a plain schoolboy who envies the grace and privileges enjoyed by a charismatic upper class student.

He starred as a Welsh schoolboy in the play's London premiere.

In 1914, Reith left Glasgow for London, largely in pursuit of a 17-year-old schoolboy, Charlie Bowser, a fast friend.

Baxter, who was a schoolboy in Newark from 1830 to 1840, contributed to The hungry forties: life under the bread tax ( London, 1904 ), a book about the Corn Laws: " Chartists and rioters came from Nottingham into Newark, parading the streets with penny loaves dripped in blood carried on pikes, crying ' Bread or blood.

* In October 2008 police stopped a 15-year-old schoolboy in south London who was taking photographs of Wimbledon railway station for his school geography project.

Gerald, handsome and still looking like a schoolboy, is to stay in London for a couple of weeks to wait for his passage to the United States, where he has been assigned to go by his parents as a punishment for his misdemeanours.

After National Service he moved to London to act, and started his career by playing schoolboy roles in films.

Born in Archway, London, Cunningham started in schoolboy football and was turned down by Arsenal before joining Leyton Orient in 1974.

Born in Yorkshire, England, Fletcher was inspired by the London punk rock movement and started a fanzine as a thirteen-year-old schoolboy which he named Jamming !.

At welterweight, he was London schoolboy champion on three occasions, fighting twice for England.

Born in Dublin, Brady started his career at Arsenal, moving to London to join the side on schoolboy forms in 1971, at the age of 15.

Metroland recounted the essence of suburbia in the early 1960s and the features of daily travel by a schoolboy, Christopher Lloyd, on the Metropolitan line to and from London.

Landing in London, catching the BBC by surprise, and with no time to bring the thousands of hopeful letter writers to a meeting with the legend, the TV company nipped next door " borrowing " three schoolboy boxers from the school ( Christopher Wren ).

As a youngster, he played for West Greenwich School and for Deal Town, and his skills soon attracted scouts from many top London clubs, including Millwall and Arsenal, but he was snapped up by Southampton, joining them as an associate schoolboy in February 1977 ( aged 13 ), and turning professional in January 1982.

Morgan was born in London, and trained with West Ham United as a schoolboy, then joined Wimbledon as a trainee, but was released by the club in 2004 without having played for the first team.

Izzet signed as a schoolboy for Chelsea, but never made a first team appearance during three years at the London club.

It was first published on 10 November 1903 by Adam & Charles Black, London, all except one item having previously appeared in the schoolboy magazines, The Captain and Public School Magazine.

Clerihews are not satirical or abusive, but they target famous individuals and reposition them in an absurd, anachronistic or commonplace setting, often giving them an over-simplified and slightly garbled description ( similar to the schoolboy style of 1066 and All That )

While still a schoolboy Frank began to reject the Talmud, and afterward often referred to himself as " a plain " or " untutored man.

Musicians often use gimmicks such as Slash's top hat, Angus Young's schoolboy uniform and Deadmau5's mouse helmet

Serious botches resulting in injuries often result in improvised endings to matches ; one famous example being the match between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Owen Hart, in which a botched piledriver left Austin with a broken neck and forced Hart to improvise an extended taunt / victory dance sequence until Austin was able to roll him up in a schoolboy pin, ending the match earlier than planned but with the desired winner.

" Colin Sorensen, who as a schoolboy often used to watch the work going on at Denham recalled the sight " of the main studio buildings, a great mass of, probably asbestos, grey-green roofs " and the smell of " cellulose paint merged with newly cut soft wood.

He told the incredulous police detectives that he spent most of his time in a flat in East Melbourne and that he had often come out of hiding in disguise, sometimes dressed as a woman but more often as a schoolboy.

Billy starts out as a normal human schoolboy who delights in mean-spirited pranks and often bullies animals.

Lorenzen studied with David Hilbert as a schoolboy and he was one of Hasse's students at the University of Göttingen until his promotion in 1938.

The Irish author grew up in the famous Republican stronghold of the Creggan Estate, Derry, Northern Ireland, at the height of the troubles and was a schoolboy witness to the tragic events of Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972.

Henry Moseley had been a very promising schoolboy at Summer Fields School ( where one of the four ' leagues ' is named after him ), and he was awarded a King's scholarship to attend Eton College.

There Jerome learned Latin and at least some Greek, though probably not the familiarity with Greek literature he would later claim to have acquired as a schoolboy.

He signed for Fulham as a schoolboy in 1950 and played loan spells at amateur sides Feltham ( in the Middlesex League ), Wimbledon ( Isthmian League ) and Woodford Town ( Delphian League ).

: One day when Nasreddin was having his regular daily coffee at his usual seat in his usual outdoor café, a schoolboy came along and knocked off his turban.

A partial cranium and mandible of Paranthropus robustus was discovered in 1938 by a schoolboy, Gert Terblanche, at Kromdraai B ( 70 km south west of Pretoria ) in South Africa.

In Hong Kong he relished linguistic misunderstandings such as those of the restaurant that offered " fried prawn's balls " and the schoolboy who wrote, " In Hong Kong there is a queer at every bus-stop.

* June 26, 1946: Brooklyn, New York A 15-year-old schoolboy who balked at turning over his pocket money to a gang of seven youths was shot in the chest at 11: 30 A. M. in the basement of the Public School 147 annex of the Brooklyn High School for Automotive Trades.

In the 2011 BBC Radio 4 adaptation Robert Powell played the narrator ; he has known Garner since he was a schoolboy at Manchester Grammar School.

The rumours have persisted ; 60 years later the official biographer of King George V, Harold Nicolson, was told by Lord Goddard, who was a 12-year old schoolboy at the time of the scandal, that Albert Victor " had been involved in a male brothel scene, and that a solicitor had to commit perjury to clear him.

He made public profession of his republican principles as a schoolboy at the Lycée Charlemagne by refusing in 1867 to receive a prize at the Sorbonne from the hand of the prince imperial.

The Jennings series is a collection of humorous novels of children's literature concerning the escapades of J C T Jennings, a schoolboy at Linbury Court preparatory school in England.

Everett's break came in 1981 at the Greenwich Theatre and later West End production of Another Country, playing a gay schoolboy opposite Kenneth Branagh, followed by a film version in 1984 with Cary Elwes and Colin Firth.

As a schoolboy at Bristol D. A. Thomas attended Highbury Congregational Chapel, Clifton, where his uncle, David Thomas, was minister.

He was not remarkable at school for application to his studies, though his wonderful memory enabled him to make good progress in them ; he frequently played truant and was whipped for it, robbed orchards, and indulged in other questionable schoolboy pranks ; nor did he always come out of his scrapes with honour and a character for truthfulness.

In the strip, Eric Wimp, an ordinary schoolboy, living at 29 Acacia Road, Nuttytown ( later changed to Dandytown after Nutty's demise ), eats a banana to transform into Bananaman, an adult superhero, sporting a distinctive cowled blue and yellow outfit complete with a yellow two-tailed cape resembling a banana skin.

PAC's coach Chester Bennett ( a former first-class player ) wrote at this point: " Possibly the finest all-round schoolboy cricketer in my experience ... he could go far in the game.

Further trials at Middlesbrough and Southampton proved unsuccessful, before Newcastle United signed him as a schoolboy in 1980.

Shilton was a 13 year old pupil at King Richard III Boys School, Leicester, when he started training at schoolboy level with his local club Leicester City in 1963.

With his winnings he decided that he should leave Eton immediately ; in a speech at his boarding house he declared that, " a man of my means should not remain a schoolboy.

" Jarry's metaphor for the modern man, he is an antihero — fat, ugly, vulgar, gluttonous, grandiose, dishonest, stupid, jejune, voracious, cruel, cowardly and evil — who grew out of schoolboy legends about the imaginary life of a hated teacher who had been at one point a slave on a Turkish Galley, at another frozen in ice in Norway and at one more the King of Poland.