This precipitated David Jr into leaving school at 14. The chauffeur disappeared from the family's life, then the car, then the maid and then their home. He had been ill for 10 years when his business collapsed just before the outbreak of the second world war in 1939. To any friends who complained of bad luck, he responded: "Count up your good luck."īorn in Streatham Hill, south London, David was the son of Jeanette Jacobs and her once-prosperous Covent Garden fruit importer husband, David senior. Very determinedly he survived much personal unhappiness, including the death of his son, Jeremy, from his first marriage in a traffic accident, and the death of his second wife, Caroline Munro, in a holiday car crash soon after their wedding in 1975.
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