vulgarian

vulgaari ihminen A vulgar individual, especially one who emphasizes or is oblivious to his or her vulgar qualities.
1894, w:Robert Louis Stevenson|Robert Louis Stevenson, The Ebb-Tide http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ebb-Tide:

He was by this time on the deck, but he had the art to be quite unapproachable; the friendliest vulgarian, three parts drunk, would have known better than take liberties...

But to have spent one's youth at college, in contact with the choice and rare and precious, and yet still to be a blind prig or vulgarian, unable to scent out human excellence or to divine it amid its accidents, to know it only when ticketed and labeled and forced on us by others, this indeed should be accounted the very calamity and shipwreck of a higher education.