Augustus Carp, Esq.: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man - Softcover

Bashford, Henry Howarth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1598180355 ISBN 13: 9781598180350

Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books, 2006

Synopsis

It is customary, I have noticed, in publishing an autobiography to preface it with some sort of apology. But there are times, and surely the present is one of them, when to do so is manifestly unnecessary. In an age when every standard of decent conduct has either been torn down or is threatened with destruction; when every newspaper is daily reporting scenes of violence, divorce, and arson; when quite young girls smoke cigarettes and even, I am assured, sometimes cigars; when mature women, the mothers of unhappy children, enter the sea in one-piece bathing-costumes; and when married men, the heads of households, prefer the flicker of the cinematograph to the Athanasian Creed -- then it is obviously a task, not to be justifiably avoided, to place some higher example before the world. For some time -- I am now forty-seven -- I had been feeling this with increasing urgency. And when not only my wife and her four sisters, but the vicar of my parish, the Reverend Simeon Whey, approached me with the same suggestion, I felt that delay would amount to sin. That sin, by many persons, is now lightly regarded, I am, of course, only too well aware. That its very existence is denied by others is a fact equally familiar to me. But I am not one of them. On every ground I am an unflinching opponent of sin. I have continually rebuked it in others. I have strictly refrained from it in myself. And for that reason alone I have deemed it incumbent upon me to issue this volume. Illustrations by "Robin" (Marjorie Blood).

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About the Author

Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (1880 - 1961) was a distinguished English physician, becoming Honorary Physician to King George VI. He was also an author, most notably of satirical novels. Bashford was Chief Medical Officer to the Post Office (1933-43) and subsequently Treasury Medical Adviser (1943-45). He was Honorary Physician to King George VI (1941-44) and was the late Honorary President of the Post Office Ambulance Centre, St. John Ambulance Association. He was honored by a knighthood of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Bashford is now remembered as a satirical writer and also wrote some popular poetry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1598180355
• ISBN 13: 9781598180350
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 140