Abstract
Abstract Life story of a City banker who had started life as an unpaid solicitor’s clerk. A flair for extra-curriculum speculations secured him a job in a merchant bank, where native wit, organizational skill, and determination catapulted him rapidly to the top. As well as writing autobiographically for Mass Observation he had kept a daily diary throughout his career, and the combination of the two sources gives an unusually rich picture of the ‘gentlemanly capitalism’ of the old City of London during the twenty years before Mrs Thatcher’s ‘Big Bang’. A man of extraordinary energy and self-discipline he lived life to the full, pushing himself to the limit in outdoor sports, much sought-after as an after-dinner speaker, and vigorously pursuing a succession of adulterous affairs, mostly light-hearted, but on one occasion presenting him with an agonizing choice between the logic of the permissive society and older ideas of conjugal duty.
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