He was raised in Norfolk, and there are people living who remember his father.

He was educated at Melton School and his name's in the register.

He was in business in Valparaiso, and there's enough evidence to write three volumes of his innocent life there.

Then he came home with a modest competence two years before the war, and has been in the public eye ever since.

He was Liberal candidate for a London constitooency and he has decorated the board of every institootion formed for the amelioration of mankind.