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An autobiography by Nicholas Cobbold with Clive Hodges
Nicholas Sydney Cobbold OBE was born in London in 1934 into a colourful family most commonly associated with brewing and football. He spent the Second World War on his grandmother’s Wiltshire estate, enjoying all the freedoms and adventures that the war afforded children, though this idyll was often punctuated by tragedy. After Eton, he did his time in the army, commanding a platoon of the Coldstream Guards in Egypt before embarking upon a long and successful career in the City of London.
Nicholas’ love of shooting has taken him all over the country and abroad and has provided him with a wide circle of friends and an abundance of amusing anecdotes. As a young man, he led a glamorous life at full tilt. He drove a succession of fast cars, sped fearlessly headfirst down the Cresta Run and flew aeroplanes and helicopters, surviving not one but two air crashes.
Scattered Memories tells these stories and others that mark Nicholas Cobbold out as a man of boundless energy and enormous fun. A daring and accomplished practical joker since childhood, his creative prank shave rarely, if ever, landed him in hot water, whether he has been deploying whoopee cushions, firing billiard balls from a cannon or impersonating the Archbishop of Canterbury’s right hand man.
Above all things, Nicholas Cobbold is a family man.
Foreword by Peter Wilmot-Sitwell
