It was customary to wear the highest rank, and the VP trumped Mr. Tim twice over.
He nearly always trumped Bobby who refused to dip to J.R.'s levels.
I thought the story about his job at the poultry farm was only a cover - some trumped up story to establish credence.
He was then found guilty of high treason and sentence of forfeiture pronounced; but there is reason to suspect that the whole case was trumped up. The old church escaped demolition at the Reformation and even the fine east Leixoes window was saved.
In 1969 they were exchanged with British spy Gerald Brooke (some said convicted in Russia on trumped up charges ).