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Rh that he sighs after in 'Forlorn Adventurers,' the lyric that lends its title to his book:

The eldest son of Sir John Lewis Jenkins, K.C.S.I., I.C.S., he had himself hoped to enter the Indian Civil Service, 'for which,' writes Frank Fletcher, in an introduction to Forlorn Adventurers, 'he seemed naturally destined by the traditions of both sides of his family and by his father's brilliant record.' Another Marlborough boy, he went to Balliol with a classical scholarship, but abandoned all personal ambitions, and became a lieutenant in