'It appears to me that a simple, straightforward account of my life
in retirement from day to day should suffice to show that, for a
variety of interests, civic sense, tolerance and a readiness to
meet and mingle with all sorts and conditions of men and (up to a
point of course) women, a retired schoolmaster can hold a candle to
any Tom, Dick or Harry...' So writes A. J. Wentworth (B.A.),
formerly a teacher of mathematics at Burgrove prep school for boys,
now passing his retirement years in a typically English rural
village where somehow he seems unable to stay out of trouble.
Indeed he lurches from mishap to misunderstanding, whether at the
Conservative Association or the local am-dram society, the cricket
club dinner or the vicarage Christmas Party. His piece de
resistance is the escorting of two schoolboys on a trip to
Switzerland that unexpectedly detours into Italy. The misadventures
that Wentworth records are many, but the reader soon sees that he
brings them upon himself - by being irredeemably self-important,
generally incompetent and persistently accident-prone. Wentworth is
the comic creation of H.F. Ellis, and was first introduced to
readers in the pages of Punch magazine. A.J. Wentworth, B.A. (Retd)
was first published in 1962, a sequel to The Papers of A.J.
Wentworth, B.A. (1949). There is pathos as well as great humour in
Wentworth's self-delusion, and he ranks alongside the Grossmiths'
Mr Pooter as a classic comic study in blinkered English manners.
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