Rudyard Kipling bequeathed us one of the most famous quotations in English literature: “If you can fill the unforgiving minute / With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run / Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it / And which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!” That this man was once a most unhappy son was revealed in his own short story, “Baa Baa Black Sheep”, written when he was 23, and which describes his experiences as a six-year-old “Raj orphan”, sent from Bombay to live in Southsea.