You're educated at home by a tutor until you're old enough to go to a major public school where your father and grandfather went. You then go to University at Oxford.
You inherit the estate from your uncle. The agricultural depression means that farming is less lucrative and you adapt to the changing economy by taking up a couple of company directorships in the City of London. On your death, your son inherits your estate.
You're keen to observe all the social events of the summer season. Every year you spend a week in the summer yachting at Cowes and you have a house at Goodwood. In the winter you and your wife travel to Biarritz, Cannes or Monte Carlo to relax and stay in hotels. You read the Morning Post which is delivered each day, and scour the pages for details of your own exploits.
You live in a large house on the edge of a village which will have a staff of ten. At weekends you have friends to stay for shooting parties. From May to August you spend much time in your Georgian London house seeing friends and going to receptions, balls, concerts, garden-parties, dinners and dances. During the War, the house is taken over as an army headquarters.
You're devoted to your wife but you enjoy spending time with other women when you're up in town, where you stay at your club. You have a particular eye for the pretty chorus girls who dance and sing at your favourite night spot.
You join the war effort as a Major and narrowly escape death. On your return home, your bravery at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 will be noted in the London Gazette. After convalescing in Switzerland you return home to live into old age.
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