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September 22, 2004

Otis Ferry

Bryan Ferry was a role-model in my pursuit of lounge suits and whisky sours. He remains one now I imagine life with wellies in the English countryside. Jim White has some stupid things to say about Iraq but makes astute observations about an English cultural divide by way of Ferry's son, Otis.

Thus, as I headed Soho-wards to find my inner Bryan, he was heading west to live on a large estate with his rather posh wife, Lucy. He sent his son - named after the great soul man Otis Redding - to Eton. What a moment in the Ferry household it must have been when the boy announced, after completing the finest liberal education money can buy, that he wanted to be apprenticed as a huntsman.

"There'll be none of that in this house," you can only hope Bryan exploded. "You'll join a rock and roll band like your father."

Posted by Ghost of a flea at September 22, 2004 08:03 AM

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Bryan Ferry did not send his son Otis to Eton. Otis Ferry went to Marlborough College. This is well documented. You must get your facts straight if you want to indulge in that quaint old fashioned sport of class warfare.

Posted by: Charles at October 11, 2004 05:10 PM

I would be curious to see this "well documented" fact. A quick google provides more links to the Telegraph's claim than yours. That said I am quite happy for you to be right and White to be wrong (say that last sentence five times fast!). But let us say it was the more plebian school... how would this deprive White of his quaint old fashioned indulgence?

Posted by: Flea at October 11, 2004 05:19 PM

'A quick google' hardly provides one with reliable factual evidence on which to base claims... Of course Otis went to Marlborough - everyone knows that. And what a good job he did of storming the Commons!

Posted by: Cara at November 1, 2004 02:51 PM

His brother Issac went to Eton.

Posted by: m at November 17, 2004 07:46 AM