My initial guess about Percy"s reasons for leaving Ireland in favour of English shores was wrong, as was my guess at his joining the army simply through a predilection to violence. The reason had originated at Grange Manor, which was the catalyst for them both.
Lord Cecil Montague of Monmouth divided his time between his English home, on the edge of the Forest of Dean, his Irish one at Grange Manor and the London flat he used at Dolphin Square on the north side of the River Thames, a mile from the Houses of Parliament at Westminster. Cecil, born in 1893, was eligible to take his seat in the House of Lords on the death of his father in 1937 and he raced to that appointment as fast as his squat body with bandy legs would carry him. London was where his s****l interests really lay; or stood,
