[1] He was educated at the University of Cambridge from where he received a Master of Arts degree.
He managed to keep the journal going during the paper rationing and other difficulties of the Second World War by reducing the number of issues to six in some years from the normal twelve.
When the main printing works of William Brendon & Sons was destroyed by German bombing in April 1941, a double issue appeared the following month.
Outside philately he was a Freemason, being initiated into Isaac Newton University Lodge whilst at Cambridge,[6] he also served as a local councillor.
[3] Larmour died on 1 November 1946 at his home Dumromyn in Crowthorne, Berkshire.