A biography of Henry Coombe-Tennant (1913-89), whose family lived at
Cadoxton Lodge near Neath and created Port Tennant at Swansea, Wales.
Henry's mother, Winifred Coombe-Tennant, was a well-known British
suffragette, political campaigner and psychic medium, and Henry was the
result of an extra-marital affair with the brother of the Prime
Minister. According to Winifred, her spirit-world contacts claimed that
Henry was to become the 'New Messiah', bringing peace to a troubled
world. After Eton, Cambridge and China (having taught himself Mandarin),
Henry went into the Welsh Guards, before being captured during World War
II, escaping from his POW camp and getting back to Britain. He joined
Special Forces, parachuting into occupied France to assist the
Resistance. Post-war, he served with NATO and then the British Secret
Service, becoming 'our man in Baghdad' after a bloody revolution in
Iraq. Converting to Catholicism in the early 1960s, he ended his days as
a Benedictine monk at Downside Abbey near Bath.