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1st Edition / 2nd Impression. Inscribed and Signed by Author. DESCRIPTION: White DJ over blue cloth Language: English. Book Condition: Near Fine Pages xii, 196. Size: 8vo 22cm by 14.5cm. PROVENANCE: Inscription: Toby [Sir Tobias Clarke]. Sir Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke, 6th Bt. (1939 - 2019)Son of Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Bt. and Elisabeth Cook. Married Charlotte Walter, daughter of Roderick Walter in 1971 and later married Teresa Lorraine Aphrodite de Chair, daughter of Somerset Struben de Chair and Margaret Patricia Field-Hart, in 1984. Named Charles Mansfield Clarke at birth he changed his name to Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke in 1962. Educated at Eton, Christ Church, Sorbonne and Graduate Business School, New York University. He succeeded as the 6th Baronet Clarke, of Dunham Lodge in 1973. Offices held: Vice-president of the London branch of Bankers Trust Company of New York, editor and founder of The Baronets Journal, Associate director of the Swiss Bank Corporation London and chairman of the Standing Council of the Baronetage. Through his grandmother, Elfrida Roosevelt (Lady Clarke, wife of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, Bt. CBE) he was related to U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt was his first cousin, three times removed. He was also the second cousin, three times removed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Elisabeth Cook ( - 1967)Daughter of Dr. William Alexander Cook. Married Colin Leiter Campbell and subsequently Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Bt. , son of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, 4th Bt. and Elfrida Roosevelt, in 1938. BOOK RESUME: Algy Cluffs imagination was captivated by hectic tales of derring-do in the novels of John Buchan. Few men could better personify Clubmen, for Cluff is a member of Brookss, Pratts, Whites, the Turf, the Beefsteak, and the Special Forces clubs in London. He is proud of his six years as an officer in the Grenadier Guards: he served in the British Cameroons, joined the Guards Parachute Company, was scrambled for action in Cyprus and with other Guards parachutists supported the SAS in action in Borneo. Left the army in 1965, invested in Malaysian rubber and palm oil plantations, and was Conservative parliamentary candidate in a Labour stronghold at the 1966 general election. With the backing from aristocratic investors to drill for oil under the North Sea, and made a fortune by the age of forty. During the 1980s Cluff developed and controlled goldmines in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, in Tanzania and Ghana. Other gold-mining forays in eastern Congo, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and Cote d'Ivoire were less profitable.
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