J. Storer Clouston

Joseph Storer Clouston OBE (23 May 1870, Cumberland, England – 23 June 1944, Orkney, Scotland) was a Scottish author and historian.

1090), Chief Counsellor to Haakon, Earl of Orkney, and later became landed gentry taking their name from their estate, Clouston.

[1] After being educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and Magdalen College, Oxford, he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in London in 1895, but never practised as a lawyer.

His First Offence was also filmed in France as Drôle de drame (directed by Marcel Carné, 1937).

They had two sons, Harald Thomas Stewart (who succeeded his father) and Erlend, and a daughter, Marjorie.