It is not known, and will probably never be known, when he began writing poetry. The answer almost certainly lay in the sack of papers that Susan Owen, on her son’s strict instructions, burnt at his death.

Less finished, but more intimate, is a passage from a fragmentary “Ballad of a Morose Afternoon”, written most probably some time after he had left Dunsden.

The other way in which the economic aspects of military expenditure were presented was in the form of the public expenditure costs. However, this was definitely secondary to the manpower approach.

Water color was, possibly because of the time it took, less popular than tempera.

Her success undoubtedly inspired younger women, and she openly encouraged those in her office.

There were, broadly, two interrelated reasons for this, the first relating to Britain’s economic and Imperial difficulties, the second to the internal dissension in all three parties, a symptom perhaps of the need for a realignment of political parties.