Ernest Bramah, of whom in his lifetime Who\'s Who had so little to say, was born in Manchester. At seventeen he chose farming as a profession, but after three years of losing money gave it up to go into journalism. He started as correspondent on a typical provincial paper, then went to London as secretary to Jerome K. Jerome, and worked himself into the editorial side of Jerome\'s magazine, To-day, where he got the opportunity of meeting the most important literary figures of the day.