Biography of Adrian Gilbert Adrian Gilbert was born near London on 26 July 1949. From 1962-7 he attended St Edmunds College, Ware, Hertfordshire—the oldest post-reformation, catholic boarding schools in Britain. From 1968-71 he was at the University of Kent at Canterbury ostensibly reading for an Honours degree in Chemistry. Once there he very quickly realised that, philosophically speaking, modern science is founded on quicksand. This only sharpened his appetite for the ultimate knowledge: to know who we are, where we come from and what is our purpose in life.