Patrick R. Chalmers
Patrick Reginald Chalmers was an Irish writer, who worked as a banker. His first book was Green Days and Blue Days, followed by A Peck of Malt.
He wrote in a number of different areas, including field sports, deerstalking and horse racing, as well biographies of Kenneth Grahame and J. M. Barrie. He was a contributor to Punch magazine and The Field, and editor of the hunting diaries of Edward VIII. He also wrote much poetry, with topics war, dogs and cats, and Irish life, as well as hunting and fishing. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
The line "What's lost upon the roundabouts we pulls up on the swings!" from his poem "Roundabouts and Swings" has passed into common parlance, with variations, though the origin is often no longer remembered.
