Roger toulson biography

A precocious talent at school, Roger Grenfell Toulson went to university when he was only sixteen. While the rapid pace of his progress fell away a little after that, he maintained an upwards professional trajectory, ending his career as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Toulson was born and raised in Surrey.

At Mill Hill School, near London, he was not only an outstanding, scholar, but also broke the school record for the mile run. Outpacing his classmates in the schoolroom as well as on the athletics track, he took his exams three years early, and entered Jesus College, Cambridge, when most of his contemporaries were taking their O levels.

Toulson had been a classics specialist at Mill Hill (his A level subjects were Greek, Latin, and Ancient History), but opted to study law at Jesus. After dallying with the idea of becoming a doctor (he decided that he lacked the practical dexterity to perform medical examinations, let alone complex surgery), he chose to ma