Simple Custom is a book about you - about the conventions that influence your conduct; the rites that are performed when you are born, when you become engaged and when you marry; the arts, the sports and the pastimes you enjoy; the clothes you wear and the manners you cultivate to take your place in this brave new world.
Sir Rupert Iain Kay Moncreiffe of that Ilk, 11th Baronet, CVO, QC, Ph.D. was a Scottish officer in the British Army and a genealogist.
Educated at Stowe School, Heidelberg, and Christ Church, Oxford, he served in World War II in the Scots Guards, served as attaché at the British embassy in Moscow, and then studied Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh, where he took a Ph.D. with a thesis on the Scots law of succession to peerages.