All the wrong credentials to be writing comedy (at least that's what I told them but 10 days later, we are here). A doctor, scientist, and the-once-and-future author of some pretty tragic* fiction. But above all a top-of-the-Jane-Austen-class-in-dated-manners Brit from the scene-of-the-first-Sherlock-murder in South London. *yes, as you see, all meanings of the word apply there