Related Clues:

• First in time
• First
• With the least delay
• First to arrive
• Soonest
• Original or most previous
• Nearest the start of a time period
• Nearest the beginning in time
• The first to arrive - to get the worm?
• Sort of most noble, perhaps, but never of late
• Maybe the most noble, but never of late
• Perhaps most noble and certainly the first
• Perhaps most noble at the first opportunity
• Rise late, perhaps, but still be the first
• Realise modified model was the prototype