![]() ![]() When asked to convert his BA from Oxford into an MA, Yeatman could not find the fee owing to debt, and hence he is recorded in 1066 and All That as "Failed M.A., etc. Yeatman then worked as a journalist before becoming advertising manager for Kodak Ltd. After the war he attended Oriel College, Oxford, where he met Sellar. Serving in France, he won the Military Cross and was severely wounded. In World War I he was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery. From 1911 he was educated at Marlborough College. ![]() He spent some of his early years in Oporto, the principal city and port of northern Portugal, where his father worked as a port wine merchant, a family business connected with Taylor's Port. ![]() He is best known for the book 1066 and All That, a tongue-in-cheek guide to "all the history you can remember", which he wrote with W.
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