Hugh Tours

HUGH BERTHOLD TOURS was born in Chiswick on 15 July 1910. A career with the Bank of England was interrupted in 1939 when Hugh enlisted in the Royal Navy. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant RNVR, serving as a Gunnery Officer in the Far East as well as on the Russian Convoys. After the war Hugh returned to the Bank of England, where he started his literary career writing articles for the Bank of England magazine.