About the Author

Eric Horne served various members of the nobility and gentry for fifty-seven years before retiring after World War I with a small pension from a former employer.

Reviews

"A splendidly rumbustious kind of memoir."--Jeremy Musson in Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant"A first rate book. The world is treated to one more of those human documents, written without guile or pretension. Eric Horne is a keen student of human life."--New York World