The more singular traits of Michael Kidson, a history master at Eton for three decades, included his exaggeratedly haughty manner, his extreme punctiliousness about grammar and pronunciation and his tendency to favour boys of – how to put this? – superior ancestral pedigree.
09 November 2017, The Tablet
Eton eccentric celebrated
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