Who is Alfred Tayler from Under My Skin and what is their importance? Under_My_Skin_(book) English & Literature Alfred Tayler | Under My Skin

Alfred Tayler is Doris Lessing's father. He is injured in the First World War, when his leg is amputated as a result of a bomb. He wears a wooden leg for the rest of his life. Alfred obtains a position with an English bank after the war, and is posted in Persia for five years, where his two children are born. He decides to begin a farm in Southern Rhodesia, Africa, when this job ends, and moves his family there. The farm has marginal success, and he is always in debt. He is diagnosed with diabetes, and spends the rest of his life as an invalid.