He was born in war-torn London, England in 1941. He attended a Jesuit College (Alma Mater of Alfred Hitchcock, Cardinal Heenan, George Martin, Gerard Woodward and others). After surviving the rigours of this centre of academic greatness, he began his working life in banking and international finance. This involved him, from very early on, travelling extensively and living in Europe, Africa, Middle East and the USA.
For the latter part of his working career (according to his family he doesn’t work now!) he became a senior teacher, examiner, and faculty head in both Mathematics and Science. He has, moreover, taught in Spain, Switzerland and Holland as well as in the United Kingdom.
His first novel, 'Tall Grows the Grass', leans strongly on his early (legal) involvement in Africa in the ‘60s (Congo wars, inter-tribal conflict, arms smuggling, illicit diamond dealing – all the usual things!) at a time when emergent nations were throwing off the shackles of colonialism but being unduly influenced by other interested foreign parties, and again in the ‘70s, both times when he was rather more daring and less of a sedate person than he is now!
His experiences in travelling extensively in Egypt, Israel and Yemen (for both pleasure and business) served him well in researching for his latest novel, 'First Son of Khui'. Moreover, little has been written about the Ancient Egyptian 6th Dynasty, a time when the Great Mammoth still roamed the face of the Earth, although many of the characters in his novel are historically true.
Now in the autumn years of his life, he has ventured to sit down to write a series of Science and Mathematics books, and to document some of the more interesting aspects from his life-long romance with 'paper money' in a series of four books.
He has more plans to bring to fruition though, prior to his brain going into a tail-spin of senolytic decomposition and before successful negotiation of next twenty odd years of his life! One of those plans is the close completion of ‘SHE’, a book which celebrates the history of women in Mathematics and Science (ouch!).
