Pseudonym of Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark. He was a barrister and later a county court judge. He was educated at Rugby. After Rugby he went to New College, Oxford, where he took a first in modern history. In 1924 he was called to the bar. Over the next fifteen years he built up a reasonable junior practice. In 1933 he married Mary Barbara Lawrence, a girl he had known since childhood. It was a happy marriage and produced a son and two daughters. Sadly, in 1958 he was taken ill and did not recover.