George, who remained a bachelor, rose to become manager of Barclays Bank in the Strand and outlived the other two, dying at the age of 79 in March 1941. They ‘chummed’ together for some years – both shared a love of the theatre -and a life-long friendship was formed. The landlady suggested that, to save money, the two might share a room. George was a bank clerk (who ‘goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him outside at two’) and was living in a back room of the same house. Jerome was acting as a clerk to a firm of solicitors and lodging just off London’s Tottenham Court Road when Wingrave entered his life. The original ‘Three Men’ – from left to right Carl Hentschel (Harris),
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