Peter Mayne
Peter Mayne was born in England in 1908. His father was an exotic sort of school master who specialised in the sons of the ruling princes of India and was principal of the Rajmukar College for twenty years. Later he would serve as guardian to the young Maharajah of Jaipur. When Peter Mayne had finished his education in England, he went out to Bombay at the age of twenty and worked as an assistant in a firm of merchant shippers. He was a failure as a businessman, though his father’s many...
