21 JUNE 1997, Page 24

Perry Worsthorne ha ha ha!

Sir: I note with interest that both George Melly and Peregrine Worsthorne are now writing letters to your paper and it appears that they were both at Stowe together. I was also at school with them. Melly was in my House and Worsthorne was in the one next door. The latter's claim to fame, in my memory, was that instead of wearing a rain- coat or an overcoat like all the other boys Worsthorne chose to wear a cloak! How we used to kick him! And he also had four Christian names!

Gordon Johnson

10 The Crescent, Vaucluse, New South Wales 2030, Australia