J. Storer Clouston

J. Storer Clouston (1870–1944) was born in Edinburgh, the son of a prominent psychiatrist, and spent most of his life on the Orkney Islands, where his family held land, eventually serving as an Orkney county councillor and writing several works of local history alongside his fiction. He was a popular and prolific comic novelist in the years before the First World War, best known for The Lunatic at Large (1899) and its sequels and for Count Bunker (1906), a farcical tale of mistaken royal identity; his light, absurdist style anticipated the between-the-wars comic fiction of writers like P. G. Wodehouse. He died on Orkney at seventy-three.