Known to every British schoolboy is the mythical Etonian to whom a statue was erected for shooting his father who wore brown boots on Sunday. Sir H. Walter Gilbey, Bart., famed horseman and gin distiller, is a Harrovian, but he too has his principles.
Sir Walter is 72. He has worn a mauve carnation in his buttonhole every day for 35 years. He owns and wears Britain's finest collection of fancy waistcoats (all with buttons engraved with his initials), a collection rivaled only by the de la Baume-Pluvinel collection in Paris. One day lately...
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