By Bob Barney
This is a story about a famous person, whose life is almost unknown! I’ll call him Vin, for now.
Vin, you see had a remarkable gift for perception – seeing powerfully what most others did not observe at all – "sad but always cheerful" he described himself and he turned to the religious scriptures for solace, secretly harboring the ambition to become a clergyman like his father. However, he did manage to find employment in Ramgate, on the south coast, where he tough French, spelling and arithmetic in a small school – and was able also to linger on the beach and watch the sea!