In the 2011 BBC Radio 4 adaptation Robert Powell played the narrator ; he has known Garner since he was a schoolboy education.education Manchester Grammar School .

Lord Byron was a frequent visitor as a schoolboy education.education Harrow school , from 1801 to 1805 , and he sat dreaming by `` his favourite tombstone '' ( the `` Peachy Tomb '' ) , as recorded in `` Lines Written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow '' , which is reproduced on a memorial in front of the Peachy Tomb , erected by the son of one of Byron 's school friends in 1905 .

His nephew , Gerard Rotherham , played first-class cricket for Cambridge University , Warwickshire and Wellington in New Zealand , and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year as a schoolboy education.education Rugby School during the suspension of first-class cricket in the First World War .