Stouts Hill the family, including Colonel Browne. Stouts Hill was the birthplace reputedly of the Gloucestershire historian, Samuel Rudder, and of the distinguished Persian scholar Edward Granville Browne. From 1935 until 1979 it was let for use as a private boys' preparatory school in which some 100 pupils were boarders. Notable former pupils of the school include Stephen Fry, who makes a detailed reference to the school in his autobiography, "Moab Is My Washpot", and Captain Mark Phillips, former husband of Anne, the Princess Royal. http://www.stoutshill.co.uk/<br> http://stoutshillschool.blogspot.com/ Stouts Hill Stouts Hill is an 18th-Century Gothic revival country house situated in the Cotswolds,
Moab Is My Washpot years". Fry, being a fervent P.G. Wodehouse fan (having written a foreword to a "Best of" compilation of his works, and having played Jeeves in the British comedy series on his works), is likely to have been inspired by a quote from Uncle Fred mentioning Pongo Twistleton's exploits in the book Uncle Dynamite:"Pongo," said Lord Ickenham, "is in terrific form. He bestrides the world like a Colossus. It would not be too much to say that Moab is his washpot and over what's-its-name has he cast his shoe. ..." In a 2001 article for the "Evening Standard", Andrew Billin wrote