Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, CH (usually writing as A.P. Herbert or A.P.H.) was an English humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist. He was an independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford University for 15 years, five of which he combined with service in the Royal Navy.
Five stars because of the concluding one-act play "Two Gentlemen of Soho" - a typical 1920s romp written in Shakespearean verse. The Bard would have laughed!