Sir Alan Patrick Herbert CH (1890–1971) was an English humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist. He was an independent Member of Parliament for Oxford University for 15 years, five of which he combined with service in the Royal Navy.
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An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
—A. P. Herbert
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