Peter Henniker-Heaton was a classics scholar, a spiritual thinker, a civil servant, a PUNCH magazine humorist, a member of astronautical societies, a student of Christian Science who experienced a complete healing of paralysis, and an Englishman who lived in America. He embraced all his identities. He wrote about these things for decades in his poetry and other writings. The smallest things, as well as the largest, seemed to amuse and astonish and delight him.