![]() In 1912, Seely was appointed Secretary of State for War with a seat in Asquith’s Cabinet, but in 1914 disaster struck in the shape of the Curragh Mutiny, when 57 out of 70 British Army officers resigned their commissions rather than take up arms against the Ulster Volunteers who opposed Home Rule. His early life was one of adventure, sailing to the Antipodes, saving the crew of a French ship wrecked off the coast of the Isle of Wight, and later raising a calvary squadron and joining the Boer War, where he was awarded the DSO for his bravery.Īs if all that wasn’t enough, on his return to England he was elected Conservative MP for the Isle of Wight, but like his close friend Winston Churchill, later crossed over to the Liberals. “Galloper” Jack Seely was at the heart of some of the most important events of the first part of the 20th century. Now we have all that out of the way, let’s talk about Scott’s reissued biography of his grandfather. Now the firm has also republished Scott’s 2003 work, this time re-titled Galloper Jack: The remarkable story of the man who rode a real war horse, all timed, of course, to ride on the back of the fictional war horse of Michael Morpurgo’s novel – called, as we all know, War Horse – which has successfully completed transfer from West End stage to screen with a Stephen Spielberg film. In 1934, Seely had published his own book, My Horse Warrior, and last year Racing Post Books republished this as Warrior: The Amazing Story of a Real War Horse with additional notes by Scott. ![]() In 2003, SJA member Brough Scott, three times the Sports Feature Writer of the Year, noted television presenter, editorial director of the Racing Post and a former jockey who rode at Aintree and Cheltenham, had published Galloper Jack: A Grandson’s Search for a Forgotten Hero, the biography he had written about his grandfather, General Jack Seely. And it wasn’t the first time we’d had the horse, either. Well, actually, now we have the rider again. Except this really happenedįirst we had the horse. ANTON RIPPON saddles up again for more period tales that could be scenes from Downton Abbey or Upstairs Downstairs.
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