Possible Clues:

• Nearest the beginning in time
• Rise late, scramble and be the first to arrive
• Perhaps most noble at the first opportunity
• 17 and I set out first
• Most primitive eastern paintings maybe conveying stories
• First nobleman to have broken ties
• The first to arrive - to get the worm?
• First occurring
• Most primitive aristocrat that is a good man?
• Ateliers (anag)