Background
Ronald Jeans was born in Oxton, Merseyside, the younger son of Sir Alexander Grigor Jeans (1849–1924), the founder and managing editor of the Liverpool Post and Mercury, and his wife, Ellen Gallon (d 1889).
Ronald Jeans was born in Oxton, Merseyside, the younger son of Sir Alexander Grigor Jeans (1849–1924), the founder and managing editor of the Liverpool Post and Mercury, and his wife, Ellen Gallon (d 1889).
According to his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "Between the 1930s and 1955 he was one of the West End"s most reliable sources of undemanding, expertly crafted social comedy.".