Born in 1937 and educated at Gosport, Hampshire, U.K.Completed an electrical apprenticeship within the Royal Dockyard at Portsmouth prior to undertaking National Service with the Royal Airforce.Later employed by various management companies that collectively became known as GEC-Marconi for a total of 38 years, with a career progression that spanned:Draughtsman, Design Engineer, Project Controller, Business Manager, Contracts Manager and finally Commercial Manager. Married in 1960, with three children born over the following ten years.My first wife died of cancer at the age of forty-nine, causing me to seek an interest to occupy my mind during lonely evenings
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U.K. South Coast