Nicholas Fogg, MBE, was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and educated at Warwick School and the Universities of Nottinghan, Oxford and London. His varied career includes founding a charity for the homeless, working with the City of Birmingham Orchestra and at Harvard University, teaching in the East End of London and Marlborough College. As the three-times Mayor of Marlborough, he was the 418yh successor to John Walford, who was sued for a debt of £30 by William Shakespeare’s father.