George Archer-Shee for the play "The Winslow Boy" by Terence Rattigan which has twice been the basis of films. He was the son of Martin Archer-Shee and his second wife Helen Treloar. His father was a banker and grandson of the painter Sir Martin Archer Shee. His half-brother was Martin Archer-Shee. The actor Robert Bathurst is his great nephew. In January 1908 Archer-Shee became a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. The college, which was part of the estate of the late Queen Victoria, educated and trained 14- to 16-year-olds in their first
George Archer-Shee of the United Kingdom's best barristers of the age, who had a son at Osborne. Before he took the case, Carson subjected the boy to questioning to test his story, only accepting once he had satisfied himself of the boy's innocence. Several problems prevented Carson from taking the case straight to court. Firstly as Archer-Shee was a naval cadet at the time, this excluded him from the jurisdiction of a civil court. Secondly as he was not enlisted in the Royal Navy, he was not entitled to a court-martial. In order to help his client, Carson brought a petition of