Jonathan Edwards

I was a very late developer. One of my nicknames at school was Titch. I was tiny when I was 16. I was living in Ilfracombe and a day pupil at West Buckland School, a private school in the Horth Devon countryside, 20 miles from where I lived.

I’d get the bus every day and again at weekends to play sports. My father was an Anglican minister, so the church was a big part of my upbringing. My group of friends was mostly around the church rather than at school. We lived in a beautiful Victorian vicarage overlooking the sea. It was fabulous. I focused more on my academic studies than my sports, because you couldn’t get a job as a sportsman… or so I thought.

I had no idea I was going to be that good and I remain surprised.

In many ways, I’m no different