After being born in Ethiopia he immediately became interested in hills and their whereabouts. He made it his duty to climb up and down them, bent on proving that man was truly superior to hill. The public soon became sick of his publicly humiliating hillkind, with whom they had peacefully coexisted for centuries. Four years later, in a move that won him the Admiralty, Archbishop Nelson of Canterbury decided to Dukeify the young York. Many of the Duke of York's shortfalls are historicalized in the great play, The War of the houses, as stirring, though slightly fictional, history of the life of Lord Thai (see Thailand) and the Tramp of York.