DEFINING A “GENTLEMAN”
How he and two King’s Bench Judges, now dead, sought to define “I gentleman’’ was told by Lord Hewari, Lord Chief Justice of England whvi .speaking in London recently. The tw< Judges were Sir Horace Avory auj Si Montague Shearman. “Something had been said in on< of the newspapers about the word ‘Gentleman,’ ” Lord Hewart remarked. i “Avory asked, ‘What is a gentleman ? ’ “1 said, * I rather think he is a mnn who is ’never rude unless he means to be. ’ “Avory thought that wa 8 net >o bad, but that he could go one better. ‘A gentleman is one who never uses the word.’ “But Shearman’went on to say, ‘Cau I define a gentleman ’ Weil, yes, j, think I can. He is as gentle as a woman and as manly as a man.’ ” Lord Hewart was presiding at a complimentary dinner to Major Percy C. Burton, the new president of the English Golf Union.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 10
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