The man who laid the egg story was MR James, the doyen of ghost story writers and Provost of Eton College.
PG Wodehouse became upset on reading that James timed the boiling of his breakfast egg by doing the Times crossword, made worse by the information that he did not enjoy a hard-boiled egg. He wrote to the paper: "To a man who has been beating his head against the wall for twenty minutes over a single anagram it is g. and wormwood to read a statement like that one about the Provost of Eton and the eggs"