The Counts Chauffeur. Being the Confessions of George Ewart, Chauffeur to Count Bindo Di Ferraris

When I was fourteen, we moved to London with my father. He became an agent on Wood Street, City, representing a large silk maker in Lyon.

• At the age of twenty, I worked in an office with dusty books and a large armchair that I did not really like.

I was always interested in mechanics, but my father did not perceive her as a profession and wanted me to walk in his footsteps.