The Most Unforgettable Character I Have Met

A tribute by Judge Book to F W Boreham recorded on radio from a handwritten statement [see below] that was found in FWB's desk.

F W Boreham’s biographer, T Howard Crago, writes about his subject:¹

At an age when so many prominent men drop into the background and are soon forgotten, it was no small satisfaction to know, at seventy-eight, that one’s work were still not only being done, but appreciated. In fact, a further appreciation was to come a few weeks later, which would move FWB even more deeply than the tribute of the Mercury. An old friend, Judge C H Book, of the Victorian County Court, had been invited, by radio station 3KZ in Melbourne, to deliver a 250-word contribution to a programme of Christmas-night broadcast talks on The Most Unforgettable Character I Have Met. The Judge now wrote saying that he proposed, if the subject himself approved, to speak about Dr Boreham. To which, F.W.B. characteristically replied: