I was born and brought up in New Zealand in the 1960s and 1970s. After studying physics at University I left on a working holiday and came to the UK where I took up a job as an electronics engineer with Marconi Radar Systems Ltd. The company was based in Chelmsford but I was in the Field Services Dept and my work took me to Portsmouth for a few years and then Egypt and the Sultanate of Oman.

I continued to work in the British electronics industry throughout the 1980s and 1990s after which I changed careers and became an internet entrepreneur founding the company Local Surveyors Direct which is a family of price comparison websites for Building Surveys and other property services (www.localsurveyorsdirect.co.uk).

I have always been interested in family history and history generally and have written a book History of the World. I have also written a book about the 1960s & 1970s and a book about the 1980s. More info can be found on my website www.jjhc.info .

My other regular activity is as a member of Winchester Rotary Club where I am one of the organisers of the Clarendon Marathon (www.clarendon-marathon.co.uk).