[1] Harry Earnshaw lived in Royston, South Yorkshire[citation needed] and was a natural athlete and cyclist.
Who after reading a popular magazine called "Fragments", within its pages were a series of cartoons featuring a sergeant-major glaring at a new recruit shouting "Before you come on parade tomorrow, Shakespeare get your hair cut."
[3] Earnshaw started road racing in 1935 when he was 18 years old, winning his first event, 25-miles in 1 hour 18 minutes despite several delays, a fall and mechanical damage.
He was renowned as a tough, resilient, uncomplaining rider, coping with mechanical and physical set-backs.
[1] In his senior years he became an accomplished after dinner speaker, but later came the sad news of his multiple amputations, a decision which was made due to the clotting of the arteries in his legs, the result of which confined him to a wheelchair.