Hugh Laurie

As you all well know, CS Forester , author of the Horatio Hornblower narratives,
was really named Cecil T Smith and he worked for the UK's propagande dept. The Ministry of Information, on Her Majesty's service.
His books about Hornblower, which he started writing in the early nineteen twenties are based 100% on the long, well deservedly decorated naval career,
Of Edmund Nagle of Ballyhooly in Cork.Edmund served 52years at least, starting as a teen midshipman with a high voice to yell the captain's orders, halfway down the vessel's length to full admiral of the fleet, And also acted as HRH George...