- VICTOR CANNING

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A QUESTION OF TRUST

By- A.K. SahuTGT (English)

JNV Dindori (MP)

Victor canning

16 Jun 1911- 21Feb1986

Victor canning – Biography • Victor Canning was born on 16th June 1911, in Plymouth, Devon,

the eldest child of Fred Canning, and his wife Mabel, née Gold. The address of the family according to the 1911 census which took place just before Victor's birth was 6 Row den Street, Peverell, Plymouth, and his father's profession was given as "taxi-driver", though elsewhere he described himself as "coach-builder". During WW1 his father served as an ambulance driver in France and Flanders, while Victor with his two sisters went to live in the village of Cal stock ten miles north of Plymouth, where his uncle Cecil Goold worked for the railways and later became station master. After the war the family returned to Plymouth. In the mid 1920s they moved to Oxford where his father had found work, and Victor attended the Oxford Central School. Here he was encouraged to stay on at school and go to university by a classical scholar, Dr. Bernard Henderson, who promised to get Victor a place at Oxford University, but the family could not afford it and instead he went to work as a clerk in the education office at age 16, first in Oxford, later in Weston-super-Mare. 

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PRESENTATION

Harace danby was a good , honest ; healthy citizen who made locks with his two helpers and a respectable citizen . He once served in a prison library there he developed a love for rare & expensive books . So to buy some rare books every year , he had to break a safe every year . This year he planed to break safe at Shotover Grange , whose picture he had seen in a magazine .He planned , observed the house for two weeks and was about to break it but suddenly a lady came in between calling herself the lady of the house .

The lady in a red dress tried to threaten him to give him to the police and only leave him if he would open the safe for her as she had forgetten the numbers to open it and needed the jewellery in urgent .so he opened it and gave all the jewellery to the lady and went away happily.

After two days while he was planning to rob another safe the police came to arrest him because his fingerprints were found all over the room as he had opened the safe without gloves .when he said that the owner lady of the house herself told him to open the safe then he came to know that the owner was a grey –haired woman and that lady whom he met that day was another burglar who cheated him. From that time onwards he gets angry when anyone talks about the “Honour Among Thieves”.