Graham Goulden (or Goulder[1]) Hough[pronunciation?]
[3] He was educated at Prescot Grammar School, the University of Liverpool, and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he achieved a first-class in Part II of the English tripos as an affiliated student in 1936.
[4][5] He became a lecturer in English at Raffles College, Singapore, in 1930.
In World War II he served as a volunteer with the Singapore Royal Artillery, until taken prisoner and interned in a Japanese prison-camp.
[4] After further travelling and teaching in the Far East, Hough returned to Cambridge as a fellow of Christ's College in 1950.