The Winslow Boy The Winslow Boy The Winslow Boy is an English play from 1946 by Terence Rattigan based on an incident involving George Archer-Shee in the Edwardian era. The incident took place at the Royal Naval College, Osborne. Set against the strict codes of conduct and manners of the age, "The Winslow Boy" is based on a father's fight to clear his son's name after the boy is expelled from Osborne Naval College for stealing a five-shilling postal order. To clear the boy's name was imperative for the family's honour; had they not done so, they would have been shunned by their
Martin Archer-Shee on 15 August 1902, and received the rank of brevet major a week later. He resigned from the army in 1905. In the same year he married Frances Pell, and the couple had seven children. At the January 1910 general election he was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Finsbury Central, winning the seat for the Conservatives and unseating the Liberal-Labour MP, W C Steadman. In parliament he was an advocate of Tariff Reform and argued for the case for an enlargement of the navy. His half-brother was George Archer-Shee, whose expulsion from