Who is Edward Driffield (Ted) from Cakes and Ale: Or the Skeleton in the Cupboard and what is their importance?

Ted is a renowned late-Victorian author. He and Ted his first wife, Rosie, befriend the narrator, William Ashenden, in Blackstable, England, when he is a child. After Ted dies at eighty-four, Alroy Kear asks William to provide information on Ted's unknown years for a biography he is writing, which has been commissioned by his second wife, Amy.