Dr. Horatio Beaker has been my friend - and colleague - for many years, and I can think of few people better qualified to write a biography of myself. ( Though I hope he will avoid the rudest of whatever remarks he sees fit to make ! )
Horatio, like his formidable cousin Dame Fenella Farnsworth MBE, is a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is also the past designer of much scientific equipment, many items of which are in fairly general use for physical, biochemical and other fields of research today. Oddly enough, his laboratory was at one time in White City, on the site of what is now the BBC Television Centre.
Dr. Beaker has seldom cared what his address might be, and simply moved, some years ago now, from London to an isolated castle in the Scottish Highlands as his research base; but we have remained in constant touch with one another. M.C.W.
From : Dr. H. Beaker, Bhanavie, Wester Ross
I suppose I have known Martin since he was about fourteen, and I'm delighted to have been asked to chronicle his progress through a somewhat colourful career as doctor, pilot, computer designer, night-club owner in the Carribean, quarry and blasting engineer, taxi driver, novelist, screenwriter, and commodity futures trader, among other things .
It will be some time before I have completed my formal researches into Dr. Woodhouse's "Life and Times", though, and I would ask you to be patient for a while.
Dr. Horatio Beaker, D.Sc.
This is Ruth Lever, one of Martin's early girl-friends. I do not know why Martin wanted us to include this photograph, but at his request we have done so.
MCW: What do you mean, Horatio? I guarantee you every single person who looks at this page can tell you why. Beautiful Jewish girls make a change, surely, from pictures of computers or even of myself ?
MCW: Oh, and the baby isn't mine, in case you were wondering. Ruth was Miss West London at the time the picture was taken, that's all.
As you can see here, Dr. Woodhouse's strength as a young man was, for an academic, quite remarkable . . .
