I am reading about Oswald Mosley, the fascist with trademark black shirt.
His grandfather, who was also named Oswald Mosley, might have been the model for John Bull, the cartoon representation of the stolid Briton. He was a prize-winning breeder of shorthorn cattle, an authority on shire horses, milled flour for his own wholemeal 'Standard Bread' which was promoted by Daily Mail.
His son, our Mosley's father, had 'insatiable and promiscuous sexual habits', His wife, Mosley's mother, found love letters from her husband to his mistress. She took her children and left him. Old Sir Oswald, supported his daughter-in-law. He called his son for a boxing match, and with one arm tied behind his back, the old man thrashed his dissolute son. The humiliated son left home and stayed in a local inn, and then moved to London.
All this happened early in the twentieth century. It could have happened here too, in Erukkampatti or some other small village.
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