Stuart Hampshire was my "Warden" at Wadham College Oxford. I once met him
when he was considering 'sending me down', which means back down to London in the local lingo. Reasons for that may appear later...
" Do try to remember you are at Oxford, not on the Left Bank" was his advice.
He was a real gent.
This link is to his obituary:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,12212,1239716,00.html
As Daniel Dennett says in his Philosophical Lexicon, there were hidden depths to the apparently placid Hampshire:
Hampshire, n. A scenic bit of English countryside, providing broad prospects and distant horizons, but one must foot one's way carefully; under the marsh there is a bog.
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