From Samuel Hughes, in Works in Progress:
The elites of Victorian England behaved differently. These schools and universities are not very academic and have very little STEM. As adults, they stay up late, drink a lot, and spend an inordinate amount of time partying. She loves parties, sports, holidays, dancing, and grooming. Contrary to their stodgy reputation, they are probably a lot of fun.
Here are some more details:
Most socially elite Victorian boys began formal education at the age of seven or eight, spending about five years in ‘preparatory school’ before moving on to ‘public school’ (which, to the confusion of international observers, was a kind of elite private school). There is a hierarchy of public schools, with nine ‘Clarendon schools’ at the top, and only one, Eton College, clearly at the top. About 30 percent of nineteenth-century cabinet ministers and 40 percent of prime ministers were Old Estonians.
Most students at prep schools and public schools were boarders, meaning that elite Victorians were generally sent away from home at the age of eight and spent more of their childhood with peers than with family. In this respect they were unique even in their own time: elite families in continental Europe and the United States were far more likely to keep their children at home and teach them in small local private schools. It is understandable that this led to a lack of subnational loyalties in the British elite, in contrast to different elites in, for example, the Southern United States, Catalonia in Spain, or Hungary in the Austrian Empire.
Nor did the Victorians get up early in the morning. Suggested, there is more in the link, although the answer to that question remains a mystery to me.