Harry was educated privately and initially obeyed his father’s desire that he follow a scholastic career by becoming a pupil teacher in Lewisham, Kent, for three years. But he was not happy as a trainee teacher and later described the episode as the longest years of his life.
In his early twenties, he escaped to London, “the hub of the world” as he describes it, for a job in a city office. As a clerk working for various shipbrokers, he met life in the raw by talking to the sailors and skippers who had sailed and traded around the world.
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