Forget The Boat Race, the Grand National, the Queen's second birthday and strawberries and cream (although they do work perfectly with the colour scheme we're aiming for), when it comes to
archetypal English events, St George's Day is up there with the best.
Charles Paget Wade was an architect, an artist, a collector, and an
archetypal example of the
English eccentric.Now well known for his unique house and collection at Snowshill in the Cotswolds, Wade had a life before Snowshill.