Hugo Charteris
HUGO CHARTERIS was born in London in 1922, third grandson of the 11th Earl of Wemyss. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and served in the Scots Guards during World War II, for his part in which he was awarded the Military Cross. In 1948 he married Virginia Forbes Adam. In 1951 after a couple of years of glamorous living as a Paris correspondent for the Daily Mail, he moved with his wife and their two children to the far north of Scotland in order to concentrate fully on journalism and writing novels, the first of which, A Share of the World, appeared in 1953. There followed three more children and a further eight novels, as well as two children's books and several acclaimed TV plays, before his untimely death from cancer in 1970, at the age of 48.
