Education
As a young boy, Jack was sent to Westminster School, but was expelled only a year after matriculation for fighting a master at the school. He was then sent to Harrow school from where he was also expelled three days later. He was subsequently educated by a disparate series of private tutors whom he tormented with practical jokes that included, but which were not limited to, leaving a horse in one tutor's bedroom.
Despite having achieved very little academically, Jack was granted entry to Cambridge University, where he brought with him 2,000 bottles of port to sustain himself during his studies. He would, however, leave Cambridge without having graduated, because he found university life boring. After leaving Cambridge he embarked on The Grand Tour through Europe's major cultural capitals, as was customary for members of families of a high social standing.
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