Neville recounts that he became passionately committed to reading at the age of twenty, having cared for nothing but sports before then; he was in London when a Mr. [Bacon?], a Scotsman, interested him in literature, and he returned to the States at that same age, reading and meditating six to eight hours a day.
Date (happened)
between 19 February 1925 and 19 February 1926
unresolved
between 19 February 1925 and 19 February 1926
relative · probable · preferred
Why
The exact month within the age-twenty year is not stated.
Reasoning
Neville states the event happened at age twenty; his birth date is established elsewhere in the corpus as 19 February 1905 (e.g. passage 528454, hist_event:950), which fixes 'age twenty' to the twelve-month window between his 20th and 21st birthdays, 1925-02-19 to 1926-02-19. No finer point within that window is given.
Told / reported
6 December 1966
stated
Reasoning
Of four delivery claims on this lecture, d3 is the most precise and best corroborated: the transcript's own leading dateline (6 Dec 1966) is a Tuesday (a night Neville lectured) and sits six days after Barbados's 30 Nov 1966 independence, matching the lecture's own 'this morning's paper said they'd just become independent' remark (d1/d2). This supersedes the doubtful catalog claim of 1965-02-02, which that same remark refutes outright (independence predates it by nearly two years).