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Graham Greene: Berkhamsted School
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The novelist Graham Greene entered into his lifelong duel with death at an early age. Bullied mercilessly at Berkhamstead School, where his father was headmaster, he sat up one night trying to saw open his knee with a penknife.
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GRAHAM GREENE, Canadian actor, born June 22, 1956 on the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford Ontario, Canada. He is a full-blooded Oneida. Graham was the second of six children born to John and Lillian Greene. At the age of 16, Greene dropped out of school and went to Rochester, New York. Two years later Graham returned to Toronto and studied welding at George Brown College. Not to mention,...
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His parents, Charles Henry Greene and Marion Greene (née Raymond), were first cousins, members of a large, influential family who included the Greene King brewery owners, bankers, and businessmen. Charles Greene was Second Master at Berkhamsted School, the headmaster of which was Dr Thomas Fry (... married to a cousin of Charles). Another cousin was the right-wing pacifist Ben Greene, whose politics led to his internment during World War II.
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From his earliest childhood Greene exhibited a world-weariness that at times reached the brink of despair. In large part this bleak approach may have been due to a wretched childhood and to the traumatic time spent at Berkhhamsted School where his father was headmaster. His writing is full of the bitter scars of his school days. In his autobiographical A Sort of Life, Greene described the panic in his family after he had been finally driven in desperation to run away from the horrors of the school: "My father found the situation beyond him . . . My brother suggested psychoanalysis as a possible solution, and my father - an astonishing thing in 1920 - agreed."
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