Roger Mortimer (racing)

Son of Haliburton Stanley Mortimer (1879-1957), of 11 Cadogan Gardens, Chelsea (a London stockbroker), and Dorothy Blackwell, of Crosse & Blackwell,[3] he was educated at Ludgrove, Eton and Sandhurst, and joined the Coldstream Guards in 1930.

Sir Frederick Vernon Corfield, QC, PC, and Freddy Burnaby-Atkins were among his friends made as a prisoner of war (no.

[4] For 29 years, from 1947-1975, he was the Sunday Times' racing correspondent (aka Fairway).

Cynthia's sister Pamela had married General Sir Kenneth Thomas Darling, GBE, KCB, DSO, in 1941.

He was father of three: Jane Clare, Charles Roger Henry and Louise Star.