The True Believer: Richard Gwyn, 1934-2020

Some people are born to acclaim; some aspire to it; some have it thrust upon them by dint of their sheer excellence. For Richard Gwyn, over 86 years of life, the first and third generally applied.

Born in England in 1934, the son of an army brigadier, he attended a private Jesuit boarding school and graduated from the prestigious Royal Military College Sandhurst. With his patrician bearing, “proper” speaking manner and family DNA, he could easily have found a comfortable place at the top of Britain’s entrenched class system. [MORE]