Graeme Ogden, father of Bene Factum author Alan Ogden, was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Architecture. At the beginning of the 1930s, he started Scott Radio, a successful business brought down by the outbreak of war, since most of the employees were German, and subsequently interned. After his remarkable wartime experience, he became a stockbroker and then an entrepreneur involved with a variety of projects, including mining diamonds from the African sea bed, and pelletising sulphur. He died aged 80 in 1983.