Heres a virtual movie of Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, CH...(more)
Heres a virtual movie of Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, CH (usually writing as A. P. Herbert or A.P.H.) (September 24, 1890 - November 11, 1971) who was an English humorist, novelist reading and discussing his genteel humorous advice and poem"Burglars beware!" on how to deal with Burglars according to his interpretaion of the Law in Britain at the time this piece was written . The sound recording was made around 1958/59 the visual image used in this virtual movie is of A. P. Herbert photographed in the 1937 during a BBC radio broadcast.. Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, CH (usually writing as A. P. Herbert or A. P. H.) (24 September 1890 11 November 1971) was an English humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist. He was Member of Parliament for Oxford University for 15 years, five of which he combined with service in the Royal Navy. Early life A P Herbert was born in Ashtead, Surrey, to Patrick Herbert, a civil servant, and Beatrice Herbert, née Selwyn[His mother died at an early age. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, obtaining a first class honours degree in jurisprudence. He was called to the bar by the inner Temple in 1919 but never practised. He served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. He survived Gallipoli and was mentioned in dispatches. He drew on that experience for his novel The Secret Battle, published in 1919. During the Second World War, in addition to his parliamentary duties he served in the Royal Navy on patrol-boats in the Thames. He may have been the first serving Member of Parliament to serve in the Royal Navy without being an officer: he was Petty Officer Herbert from 1940 to 1945. In 1935, with the aid of Frank Pakenham, he became an Independent Member of Parliament for Oxford University, from where he was returned until the University seats were abolished in 1950. He was sent to Newfoundland and Labrador in 1943 with Derrick Gunston and Charles Ammon as part of a Parliamentary Commission to investigate the future of the dominion, and supported the cause of independence over confederation as a result. He was knighted in 1945 in Winston Churchill's Resignation Honours The Times noted "his individual niche in the parliamentary temple as the doughty vindicator of the private member's rights, including not least the right to legislate. A. P. Herbert (Sir Alan Patrick Herbert), 1890-1971, English author and member of Parliament. He was a regular contributor to the comic magazine Punch from 1910 until his death. Herbert served in Parliament from 1935 until 1950 as a representative for the Univ. of Oxford and was largely responsible for the bill (1937) liberalizing English divorce law. His numerous books include The House by the River (1921), The Water Gipsies (1930), and The Singing Swan (1968). He was knighted in 1945.
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