Talk:John Cleland

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[edit] "Unknown" to "Putative" offense

I have changed it to "presumed" to take away some of the certainty, but also to indicate the near certainty. What we know from the record is that he was quarrelsome, vain, and that his family had no trouble sending his brothers through Westminster. His departure, therefore, is almost certain to have come from some misdeed. The utter silence on the reason for his departure has been seen as a hint that it was something truly unseemly, as schools (and people) would say, if the offense were most things. This is not to say that he was engaged in some homosexual act, but it does indicate something at least in that category. For those people who wish to see Cleland as homosexual, it's proof. For the rest of us, it's just a thing that seems likely but ultimately inconsequential. Geogre 21:32, 3 July 2006 (UTC)