Ricki Crush Bandicute TarrThe Tolkiens knew how to party!
KanaMaunaComing of age party for a Sub-Lieutenant? Sounds like they were really reaching for an excuse there.
Simon LucyComing of Age was a Thing, Coming of Age at the end of a World War an even bigger Thing.
Yeah, though ‘let’s drink to dawn in honor of my son’ implies a couple who lived life very big.
For a Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Oxford possibly so, I think pretty much everyone was at the time.