The "Great" and the "Good".....
From 1977 to 1990 I lived in Stoke Poges in Park Road where alot of rich people with big houses exist. A well-known family who used to live there were the Ramsays. Their son Alasdair by chance used to go to the same school as me...the Tutorials. His brothers though were doing very well in life. One of them was a doctor, and the other a merchant banker who was for a while married to the actress Fiona Gray. Mrs Lillian Ramsay who headed the family did a lot of excellent charity work. But she tended to be somewhat arrogant, and I found her difficult to get on with. Apart from the Ramsays I had a connection with the vicar Reverend Cyril Harris whose vicarage was nearby. He was an affable sort of person, and bit on the trendy side. He had a large family of grown up children*. He was also an author of s short book on the poet Thomas Gray who wrote the Elegy in a Churchyard, and is buried at Stoke Poges Church. Incidently, the wonderful Gar...