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Major Roger Francis Mortimer (22 November 1909 – November 1991),〔http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/9471628/A-tragically-comic-account-of-a-Prodigal-Son.html〕 was an English horse-racing correspondent, Coldstream Guards officer, prisoner of war, and author. Son of Haliburton Stanley Mortimer (1879-1957), of 11 Cadogan Gardens, Chelsea (a London stockbroker), and Dorothy Blackwell, of Crosse & Blackwell,〔''Dear Lumpy'', by Roger Mortimer and Louise Mortimer, Constable & Robinson, 2013〕 he was educated at Ludgrove, Eton and Sandhurst, and joined the Coldstream Guards in 1930. He was a Captain at Dunkirk (BEF, 1940) but was captured unconscious, all his men having been killed. Sir Frederick Vernon Corfield, QC, PC, and (Freddy Burnaby-Atkins ) were among his friends made as a prisoner of war (no. 481, in the various Oflags and Stalags). He left the army in 1947 having post-war served in Trieste, and took an appointment at ''Raceform''.〔John Karter: 'Mortimer: never at a loss for words', in The Sunday Times, December 01, 1991.〕 For 29 years, from 1947-1975, he was the Sunday Times' racing correspondent (aka ''Fairway''). He was succeeded by Brough Scott.〔John Karter: 'Mortimer: never at a loss for words', in The Sunday Times, December 01, 1991.〕 He was also The Tote's PR and a racing reporter for BBC radio 2.〔''Dear Lumpy'', by Roger Mortimer and Louise Mortimer, Constable & Robinson, 2013〕 In 1947 Mortimer married Cynthia Sydney Denison-Pender, a niece of the 1st Lord Pender and granddaughter of Sir John Denison Denison-Pender, GBE, KCMG. Cynthia's sister Pamela had married General Sir Kenneth Thomas Darling, GBE, KCB, DSO, in 1941. He was father of three: Jane Clare, Charles Roger Henry and Louise Star. His letters to them were published in 2012, 2013 and 2014.〔''Dear Lumpy'', by Roger Mortimer and Louise Mortimer, Constable & Robinson, 2013〕 ==Books== *''Dearest Jane ...: My Father's Life and Letters'', by Roger Mortimer and Jane Torday, Constable, 2014 (lacks an index and list of ''dramatis personae'' unlike her siblings' earlier volumes); *''Dear Lumpy'' by Roger Mortimer and Louise Mortimer, Constable & Robinson, 2013; *''Dear Lupin: Letters To A Wayward Son'', by Roger Mortimer and Charlie Mortimer, Constable & Robinson, 2012. Hardback reached No 2 on ''The Sunday Times'' Bestseller list and sold in excess of 40,000 copies. ''Dear Lupin'' was BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week'. Sold over 100,000 copies in all formats.〔http://www.constablerobinson.com〕); * ''The History of the Derby Stakes'',Cassell (publisher) 1962 updated edition Michael Joseph, London, 1972; * ''The Jockey Club'', Cassell, London, 1958; * ''Anthony Mildmay'', MacGibbon & Kee, 1956; * ''Twenty Great Horses'', Cassell / Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1967; * ''Twenty Great Horses of the British Turf'', A. S. Barnes and Company, South Brunswick, NJ., 1968; * ''The Flat: Flat racing in Britain since 1939, Allen and Unwin, 1979; * ''Biographical Encyclopaedia of British Flat Racing'', (Roger Mortimer, Richard Onslow, Peter Willet), MacDonald & Janes Ltd./ TBS The Book Service Ltd, London, 1978; * ''Encyclopaedia of Flat Racing'', Howard Wright & Roger Mortimer, Robert Hale, 1971 & 1986; * ''Derby 200. The Official Story of the Blue Riband of the Turf'', Michael Seth-Smith & Roger Mortimer, Guinness Superlatives, London, 1979. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roger Mortimer (racing)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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