In 1979, the author began a pre-"Roots"-style search for the origins of his Moroccan grandfather, Mohamed. The man who brought him to England, as his 'servant' aged about 12, was Lord St. Maur, of the noble House of Seymour, son of the Twelfth Duke of Somerset and of Lady Jane Georgiana Sheridan (granddaughter of R.B. Sheridan), and a leading beauty of that time. A tiny portrait of a little Moorish boy, painted at Bulstrode Park, principal seat of the Seymours in the 1860s, and his eventual Naturalisation dossier, brought all the necessary clues. Joe found the Earl to be an even more...
In 1979, the author began a pre-"Roots"-style search for the origins of his Moroccan grandfather, Mohamed. The man who brought him to England, as his ...
