C. H. Bovill

[2] In the early 1900s while still a civil servant, Bovill began writing song lyrics, collaborating with, among other composers, Ernest Shand and Philip Braham.

[6] For revues contributed lyrics to George Grossmith Jr.'s Come Inside (1909), and was co-author of Mr Manhattan and Half Past Eight, and was writer of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane's 1912 pantomime, The Sleeping Beauty.

[2] Among later West End revues of which Bovill was the author were Everybody's Doing It (1912), All the Winners (1913), Nuts and Wine (1914, with contributions from Wodehouse), and Honi Soit (1915).

[7] In addition to his theatrical work, Bovill wrote humorous prose for publications including The Globe, where for some time Wodehouse was a colleague.

While working on Nuts and Wine they wrote a series of short stories based on Bovill's idea of a young man who comes into a lot of money and finds himself in a succession of adventures.