Roger MortimerRoger Mortimer was born in 1909 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst. In 1930 he was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards. He fought in Dunkirk in 1940 and was taken as a POW for the remainder of the war. After resigning from the army in 1947, he beame a racing correspondent for the Sunday Times for almost thirty years. He wrote several classic books on racing, including The History of the Derby. He met Cynthia Denison-Pender in 1947 and was married the same year. They had two daughters: Cynthia and Jane, and one son, Charles. He died in 1991. Read More Read Less