Henry Vollam Morton was born in 1892 near Manchester, England. He became an internatio nal celebrity by scooping the world's press in the sensational discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in th e early 1920's. His newfound fame subsequently led to a series of extraordinary popular vignettes on English city and country life, which went on to s ell millions of copies worldwide. He died in South Africa in 1979 at the age of eighty-six.