This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

He was the author of the lyrics of the patriotic song Song of Liberty set in 1940 to the music of Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. ?. Novels and other writings
He wrote eight novels including The Water Gypsies (1930) and 15 plays including the light opera Tantivy Towers and the comedy Bless the Bride (1947) which ran for two and a quarter years in London.

Herbert or A. P.