One of his paternal great-grandfathers was Sir Ralph Lilley Turner, a noted philologist and university administrator (Sir Ralph was the father of Jeremy's grandmother, Kathleen).
I'd kind of hit rock bottom and really did think this was stupid and I just wasted three or four years of my life. My dad wanted me to get a job being a welder. At the company he was at, he was an engineer. I was very very close to doing that.
Gemini
Jeremy William Fredric Smith
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK