Meyost, "Tiffin" was my mother's maiden name, sometimes spelt "Tiffen." The family originated in East Anglia somewhere near where the counties of Essex, Sussex and Cambridgeshire converge. After a career in the British Army her grandfather moved the family to Shrewsbury, a garrison town close to the Welsh Border where I suspect he had once been stationed or perhaps he had been discharged there in the late nineteenth century. My parents and I were both born in Shrewsbury.